Hunger

Set in the ostensible location of Kristiania (Oslo), this is a compelling trip into the mind of a young writer driven by starvation to fluctuating extremes of euphoria and despair. The narrator is forever on the verge of madness and suicide. INTRODUCTION BY JO NESBØ AFTERWORD BY PAUL AUSTER Nineteenth-century Kristiania is an unforgiving place, and work is thin on the ground. Roaming the streets of Norway's capital, a penniless young writer searches for inspiration whilst trying desperately to make ends meet. Driven to extraordinary lengths, sleeping under the stars with his stomach growling, the writer's behaviour becomes increasingly irrational and his world spirals into chaos. Hunger was Knut Hamsun's first novel and earned him the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1920. A disturbing and darkly humorous masterpiece of existential fiction, Hunger anticipated and influenced some of the twentieth century's most acclaimed writers including Camus, Kafka and Fante. 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. ---------- Also contained in: - [Ernest Hemingway / Knut Hamsun / Hermann Hesse ](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL17970062W) Een aankomend schrijver brengt de winter van 1879-'80 hongerlijdend in Oslo door, waardoor hij overgevoelig en zenuwachtig reageert op zijn gevoelens en gewaarwordingen. NL-ZmNBD Brand new edition of Knut Hamsun's most famous work, with an introduction by Paul Auster