In the past year and a half, the Norwegian novelist has evolved from a mere literary darling to a full-blown global phenomenon, appearing in the garish spotlight of major magazines and popular entertainment blogs like a mole squinting in the sun. Knausgaard’s stop in Brooklyn was his third in the United States, and the first of three in New York alone, a tour that is meant to publicize the release of the third installment of his six-volume magnum opus My Struggle. But it also feels much more significant than that, closer to a ceremony for the English-speaking literary community to formally anoint this 45-year-old writer, as evidenced by the gold-plated industry names — Nicole Krauss, James Wood, Zadie Smith, Jeffrey Eugenides — that agreed to preside over his various events in New York.