Det var i den Tid, jeg gik omkring og sulted i Kristiania, denne forunderlige By, som ingen forlader, før han har fået Mærker af den . . . .
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(1890)
Hunger
Revised Edition, 4th printing
by Knut Hamsun, George Egerton, M. B. Ruud, Robert Bly, Paul Auster, Julius Sandmeier, Jan Oliveira, Tore Rem, Terence Cave, and Practice Norwegian
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Originally published in 1890, this classic of modern literature follows an impoverished Norwegian writer through the streets of Christiania (now Olso) as he struggles on the edge of starvation. Existing on what little money he makes from selling the occasional article to the local paper, and down to pawning the clothes on his back, the young writer slowly loses control of his reason and begins to slip increasingly into bouts of madness, paranoia, and despair.
A gripping portrait of an artist struggling for integrity, Hunger mirrors the dire straits of Hamsun's own life when he brought this, his then incomplete first novel, to a publisher in 1888.
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Fiction Classics, Literary Fiction, Mental Depression, Norwegian Authors, Autobiographical fiction, Fiction, Genius, Classic Literature, Literature, Poverty -- Psychological aspects, poverty, Starvation, Hunger, Authors, Urban poor, Norwegian literature, Continental european fiction (fictional works by one author), Norway, fiction, Authors, fiction, Fiction, general, History, Fiction, psychologicalPlaces
Oslo (Norway), Norway, KristianiaTimes
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First published in Norway in 1890, Hunger probes into the depths of consciousness with frightening and gripping power. Like the works of Dostoyevsky, it marks an extraordinary break with Western literary and humanistic traditions.
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