Knut Hamsun 
Hunger (Barnes & Noble Digital Library) 

This edition includes a modern introduction and a list of suggested further reading.


 


The story of a starving writer in Norway,
Hunger is a pivotal masterpiece of European modernism. The protagonist is anonymous and the plot is meager. What holds the text together is the focus on the protagonist’s emotions. These emotions are reveled to the reader by the minute descriptions of the inner landscape of the mind, interspersed with the unnamed writer’s random encounters with strangers and acquaintances in the streets, or short meetings with various editors.

Despre autor

Knut Hamsun (1859-1952) is both revered as one of the pioneers of modernist writing-of which Hunger is a perfect example-and vilified as an enthusiastic and unwavering supporter of the Nazi occupation of Norway during 1940-45. While the debate about his political convictions has raged unabated since his 1946 trial, intensifying after the release of Jan Troell’s 1996 movie Hamsun, the consensus about his literary genius has never been shaken.