Impossible to summarize, The Last Samurai is deeply political—anti-capitalist and thoroughly feminist—without ever becoming preachy or moralizing.

Toril Moi
Toril Moi teaches literature at Duke University. She has written books on feminist theory, Simone de Beauvoir, and Henrik Ibsen. Her most recent book is Revolution of the Ordinary: Literary Studies after Wittgenstein, Austin, and Cavell (University of Chicago Press, 2017). She also regularly writes for the Norwegian cultural weekly Morgenbladet.
Knausgaard’s Ruthless Freedom
By Toril Moi
So here it is at last: the end of Knausgaard’s struggle. It is 1,160 pages long, divided into three parts. Part 2 consists of a long essay on Hitler. Both ...