Review
"Hunger is the crux of Hamsun's claims to mastery. This is the classic novel of humiliation, even beyond Dostoevsky." Observer "One of the most disturbing novels in existence" Time Out "Hunger was published in 1890 and its power has not faded." London Review Of Books"
Time Out
"One of the most disturbing novels in existence"
London Review Of Books
"Hunger was published in 1890 and its power has not faded."
Product Description
"Hunger" is regarded as one of the major modernist novels, anticipating and influencing much fiction that was to follow, from Joyce to Kafka to Camus and Kelman. Set in Oslo, "Hunger" is a compelling journey into the mind of a young writer who is driven by starvation to constantly fluctuating extremes of euphoria and despair. It is a study of the psychological hinterlands - to the very edges of experience - where few writers have the courage to tread.
About the Author
Knut Hamsun was born in Norway in 1859. Hunger was his first novel and was published to great acclaim in 1890. He went on to write thirty novels and was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1920. Hamsun died in 1952, and since then a growing number of readers has been drawn to his work by its extraordinary qualities of insight and imagination.
