Karl Ove Knausgaard is a Norwegian writer who conducted a public experiment. He wanted to see what would happen if he wrote honestly about his life, aiming to “penetrate that whole series of conceptions and ideas and images that hang like a sky above reality” in a six-volume novel. On a personal level, the experiment failed: he reports his books harmed himself and everyone he loved. However, on a professional level, the books were a success: they became international best-sellers that pioneered a new method of writing. I believe they push literature in a new direction – toward revelation and penetration.
Knausgaard, Karl Ove. My Struggle: Book 6. Translated by Don Bartlett and Martin Aitken. Archipelago Books/Penguin Random House, 2018. p. 186.