The narrative tone and structure of My Struggle: Book Six

Karl Ove Knausgaard's My Struggle: Book Six has a curious narrative tone and structure: long sections that consist of detailed accounts of KOK's daily life with his children, including the minutia of feeding them, shopping w/ them, bringing them to and picking them up from day care; another set of long passages in which KOK discusses various personal and literary matters w/ his best friend, Geir; yet another set of long passages in which KOK agonizes about his uncle Gunnar's threat to sue KOK's publisher for defamation and to block publication of the forthcoming Book One of My Struggle; occasional long digressions in which KOK expounds theories on a variety of topics, including some literary discussion (why prose in fiction differs from other prose, the need for unique expression of feelings and ideas, as well as general thoughts on fitting into society and how we accommodate others to do so; and finally occasional brief atmospheric set pieces, often acute and unusual observations in diurnal matters, such as description the difference between the colors of raw shrimp and cooked lobster. For which of these do we read and admire KOK? Probably, all - even the tedium, for that sets the ground level for whatever tension this long volume contains or will contain. Now I'm about 1/3 through this book, and on a plot level the narrative is pretty thin - mostly about KOK's agonizing over the pending lawsuit - but there are ominous hints: Is his relationship w/ his wife, Linda, on the edge? Will the lawsuit cause him to lose faith in his role and responsibilities as a writer (unlikely)? And most of all what draws him to a fascination w/ Hitler, hinted at from the start in the title of the work and something he will address in this volume. Of course it's inconceivable to me that he would in any way admire Hitler - I wouldn't be reading this book if I thought that were the case - but what draws him to write about Hitler or even to try to understand his background and his thinking and his capacity to sway public opinion (and hysteria).