He wanted to show me a large white farmhouse situated behind a gate and a veil of trees. Along the way, Syvertsen stopped the car at an unmarked spot in the town of Grimstad, on a road that winds along the southern coast. In February, a retired high-school teacher and critic named Emil Otto Syvertsen showed me around the area where Knausgaard, who is his former student, grew up. But one element of Knausgaard’s story is spoken of more often in a whisper: What is it with that title? In Norway, the appropriation of Hitler’s words is only more obvious Knausgaard’s series is called “Min Kamp.” I interviewed his editor, Geir Gulliksen, in Oslo for a profile of Knausgaard, and when he described his initial response to the title, his thinking sounded familiar: “Why should you link it to Hitler? Why?”
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