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Original Title:	Sult
ISBN:	0486431681 (ISBN13: 9780486431680)
Edition Language:	English URL http://store.doverpublications.com/0486431681.html
Setting:	Kristiania (Oslo),1880(Norway)

Hunger

Knut Hamsun

Paperback | Pages: 134 pages

Rating: 4.05 | 39854 Users | 2770 Reviews

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One of the most important and controversial writers of the 20th century, Knut Hamsun made literary history with the publication in 1890 of this powerful, autobiographical novel recounting the abject poverty, hunger and despair of a young writer struggling to achieve self-discovery and its ultimate artistic expression. The book brilliantly probes the psychodynamics of alienation, obsession, and self-destruction, painting an unforgettable portrait of a man driven by forces beyond his control to the edge of the abyss. Hamsun influenced many of the major 20th-century writers who followed him, including Kafka, Joyce and Henry Miller. Required reading in world literature courses, the highly influential, landmark novel will also find a wide audience among lovers of books that probe the "unexplored crannies in the human soul" (George Egerton).

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Title	:	Hunger
Author	:	Knut Hamsun
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	Deluxe Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 134 pages
Published	:	November 17th 2003 by Dover Publications (first published 1890)
Categories	:	Fiction. Classics. Literature. Novels. European Literature. Scandinavian Literature

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I often catch myself staring, rather lovingly in fact, at my bookshelves. Each shelf is swelling nearly to the point of overflowing with books, each authors collection seemingly positioned at random - yet, somehow, the location of each work holds some secret form of order that is beyond even me. I'll caress each spine with my eyes, occasionally running a finger down it to feel a spark of retrospection and for a moment recall the times when I held a particular book during the course of absorbing

Ladies and Gentlemen, tonights contest is a tag team wrestling match between, in the blue corner, reigning champions The Backstabbing Haystacks, and in the red corner the fearsome Intestines R Us ladeeeeeeeez and gentlemen let me introduce you to the members of the teams, in the Backstabbing Haystacks we have from Norway the unnamed protagonist of Knut Hamsens much-praised novel of terminal anomie Hunger, so I give you Mr Anonymous Hunger (applause, hoots, burgers thrown into the ring); and his

A review of this book from my pen is akin to injustice. After all, what do I know of hunger? Something that loses its meaning with a hop to the kitchen? A need that vanishes with the stair-climbing to the canteen? A routine that knocks every four hours, only to be dispatched back to its den with a pouring of necessary and unnecessary stuff? A fuel that is available at an arms length? A six-lettered word that assumes greater importance in symbolic garb than its bare attire?I have been fortunate.

The bewildering protagonist of Hamsun's 1890 novel is living and failing dismally in an unforgiving place, Kristiania (Oslo), that strange city no one escapes from until it has left its mark. As a writer, he tries to write, but no one really wants to pay him except the occasional kindly newspaper editor, so he has fallen into destitution and is half starved to death. The novel, psychologically processes the exploration of the human spirit, and follows our wanderer as he simply travels around the

I was on the verge of crying with grief at still being alive. Its sometimes hard to separate the work from the author, of course; the list of examples is long and troubling, including Wagners and Heideggers Nazi sympathies, and oh, an increasing number of male writers we now see as misogynist. I read Knut Hamsuns Hunger first when I was 20, not knowing anything about him, and I was moved by this story of a starving artist driven to madness. I saw it then as I do now as connected to Dostoevskys

I'm pretty lucky, I guess; I've been middle-class all my life, never had to worry about where my next meal was coming from or if there would be a next meal. I've never known starvation, despite saying stuff like "I'm starving!" when it's a half-hour past lunchtime and I haven't eaten yet. So why do I identify with the undernourished protagonist of Hunger so strongly? Perhaps it's because I'm an introvert; like the protagonist, I sometimes have internal conversations with myself in the third

Started reading the original Norwegian edition today. I'm fluent in Swedish but don't really know Norwegian, though I have read maybe half a dozen Norwegian books. Comparing with English, it's rather like reading something in broad Scots dialect that's been written down phonetically. Iain Banks fans will be able to relate.So far, it's pretty good, but I'm only 15 pages into it. *****************************************************I come down the main staircase of the hotel. At reception, Zenit,