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Hunger

Hunger

by KnutHamsun (Author)

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    Paperback 2006

    $5.09
Synopsis

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.

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Format: Paperback
 Pages: 224
 Edition: New edition
 Publisher: Canongate Books Ltd
Published: 31 Aug 2006
ISBN 10: 1841958190
ISBN 13: 9781841958194
Book Overview: Brand new edition of Knut Hamsun's most famous work, with an introduction by Paul Auster

Media Reviews
Disturbing and difficult as this nightmarish novel is, it is a work of imaginative brilliance that resonates in our own day. * * Herald * *
An excellent new translation . . . this Hunger deserves to be the standard English version. Canongate did well to secure it. * * Times Literary Supplement * *
Hunger is the crux of Hamsun's claims to mastery. This is the classic novel of humiliation, even beyond Dostoevsky. * * Observer * *
Hunger is undoubtedly one of the most important novels of the modern age. At last it has found a translator capable of doing justice to its immense power and complexity: Lyngstad's deserves to become the standard English version. -- Duncan McClean
Author Bio
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, but his later work never matched the dazzling originality of his earlier novels. He died in 1953.