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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)

Hunger

Knut Hamsun

Paperback | Pages: 134 pages

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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	:	Deluxe 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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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 started

Wow. 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.

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I am tempted to write that it's a book about the adventures of a destitute man wandering the streets of Christiania, but that wouldn't do. See, there is a pleasantness implied in the word "adventures". An unspoken promise of a happy end behind every setback, no matter how difficult. But no, there is nothing pleasant in destitution. No promise that tomorrow there'll be a happy turn of events. Only hope. A hope which, more often than not, simply dies unfulfilled as another day goes by without so

I'm pretty lucky, I guess; I've been middle-class all my life, never had to worry about where my next meal was coming from or if there would be a next meal. I've never known starvation, despite saying stuff like "I'm starving!" when it's a half-hour past lunchtime and I haven't eaten yet. So why do I identify with the undernourished protagonist of Hunger so strongly? Perhaps it's because I'm an introvert; like the protagonist, I sometimes have internal conversations with myself in the third

I often catch myself staring, rather lovingly in fact, at my bookshelves. Each shelf is swelling nearly to the point of overflowing with books, each authors collection seemingly positioned at random - yet, somehow, the location of each work holds some secret form of order that is beyond even me. I'll caress each spine with my eyes, occasionally running a finger down it to feel a spark of retrospection and for a moment recall the times when I held a particular book during the course of absorbing

A review of this book from my pen is akin to injustice. After all, what do I know of hunger? Something that loses its meaning with a hop to the kitchen? A need that vanishes with the stair-climbing to the canteen? A routine that knocks every four hours, only to be dispatched back to its den with a pouring of necessary and unnecessary stuff? A fuel that is available at an arms length? A six-lettered word that assumes greater importance in symbolic garb than its bare attire?I have been fortunate.