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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
19th century, 20th centuryShowing 14 featured editions. View all 154 editions?
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Hunger
2000, Farrar, Straus and Giroux
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1984, Farrar, Straus and Giroux
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1982-07, Deutscher Taschenbuch Verlag
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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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