by Knut Hamsun · Canongate Books · tapa blanda · ISBN 9781841958194
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«Hunger» is the novel by Knut Hamsun, published by Canongate Books in paperback (253 pages, in English).
The novel follows a nameless young writer who wanders through Christiania (now Oslo), without money or food, while trying to live by his pen. Hunger drives him into alternating states of euphoria and despair, on the edge of madness. A pioneering work of modernism, it explores the alienation and psychological fragility of the artist.
Original title: «Sult», first published in 1890. Knut Hamsun was a Nobel Prize laureate in Literature. This English edition includes an introduction by Paul Auster.
Recommended for readers of Nordic classics and literary modernism who appreciate a psychological and introspective novel.
Knut Hamsun was a Norwegian writer who was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1920. Hamsun's work spans more than 70 years and shows variation with regard to consciousness, subject, perspective and environment. He published more than 23 novels, a collection of poetry, some short stories and plays, a travelogue, works of non-fiction and some essays.
