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Hunger

by Knut Hamsun

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First published
1890
Pages
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An unnamed young writer walks the streets of Kristiania with nothing in his stomach and nothing in his pockets, pawning his waistcoat, inventing names and histories for strangers, refusing charity out of pride and then begging for it an hour later. Hamsun tracks the mind hour by hour as starvation warps it into euphoria, rage, and hallucination, and he declines to explain or excuse any of it. There is barely a plot, which was the point. When it appeared in 1890 it broke with the social novel entirely and handed the coming century a new way to write consciousness. Kafka, Hemingway, and Henry Miller all read it closely. Free PDF and EPUB edition available to download.

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Knut Hamsun

Hunger, in 1890, narrates a starving writer walking around Kristiania in a voice that abandoned realism entirely, and Kafka, Hemingway, Thomas Mann and Isaac Bashevis Singer all named it as a beginning. The Nobel came in 1920 for Growth of the Soil.

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First published
1890
Reading time
About 5 hours
Pages
168
Language
English
Formats
PDF, EPUB, Read online, Audiobook
Audio read by
Greg W.