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Knut Hamsun |
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History · Literary Criticism · |
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New York Times: "Its artistic quality is indisputable. The book is very real, very frank--distressingly and shockingly frank, some persons will no doubt consider it. But none can deny that it is life, genuine, if appalling." |
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Format: Hardcover, 168
Publisher: Indypublish.Com (September 01, 2003)
Measurements: 9.25"(h) x 6.25"(w) x 0.25"(d)
ISBN: 9781404377066 |
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In this epic, semi-autobiographical novel of poverty and despair, Hamsun's narrator is a poor writer who depends upon the sale of articles and stories to the press for his living. He is usually destitute and often hungry, and during the long intervals when he is underfed, his mood swings wildly between euphoria and bleak, self-destructive hopelessness. Written with brutal candor and strong feeling, the story is deliberately anti-coherent; Hamsun said of his fiction, "I dream of a literature with characters in which their very lack of consistency is their basic characteristic." HUNGER created a sensation when it was published, and remains one of the great triumphs of modern naturalism. |
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