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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) |
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 | : | Anniversary 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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Ratings: 4.05 From 39854 Users | 2770 ReviewsEvaluation Regarding Books Hunger
He sure would like a meal, yes, but more so, why wont anybody listen? What the hell is wrong with everyone? None of them are truly getting it. They dont understand the urgency! Look at them in their warm clothes and their comfortable houses. Why do their eyes laugh at him? Is there nothing left but mockery? I wonder how he came to be in such circumstances. What led to this downward spiral? Even if I could ask him, could he even explain it? None of us can pinpoint the moment when it all startedWow. That was powerful. I have to write a lot of reviews this weekend - this will be one of them.I find it ironic that I read this while the RNC circus is going on in FL. I wish I could force everyone there to read this book and live it. just for a short while.
Hunger is, in my opinion, the most important work of "psychological realism" of all times. When I first read it, I fell in love with Hamsun's style, but it was the second and the third reading that pushed me over the edge, slipping into the realm of mind, walking the streets with Hamsun, shivering in the cold and hurting from the hunger. Hunger both for food and for a human touch, living outside the society both due to his situation and by choice to strive for the pure and unconditional
By Jove! This novel is beautifully depressing! It is beautiful because of the way it is written: magical stream-of-consciousness style with the meager plot and with no misplaced or excess words at all! It is depressing because of the theme: hunger. It is not hunger for love or something. It is the hunger that most Filipinos know: hunger for food.The novel, originally written in German and first published in 1890, revolves around a struggling writer in Christiana (now Oslo). Herr Hamsun did not
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
Last night the fog finally left me as effortlessly as it had arrived seven months ago. My mourning period was now officially over, although the good memories would be firmly entrenched forever in my mind, as well as the sad ones. I shed my widows weeds. Also the tears surprisingly enough poured for the first time in ages. I certainly do not have a weak character. I had been in the doldrums and was not progressing, nor turning the page. Knut showed me via Hunger (Norwegian: Sult) that one has to
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