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Knut Hamsun |
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History · Literary Criticism · |
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New Republic: "Hamsun seems to have drawn upon the best of two continents, and the result is a work of art that is still forceful, still provocative, and not in the slightest 'out of date.' In point of fact, ['Hunger'] is a 'fashionable' novel, all taken up with 'our' concerns and discoveries--the world's justice as it affects the individual, the unconscious and its various workings, the question of what is psychologically 'normal' and what is socially permissible." |
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Format: Hardcover, 284
Publisher: Bibliolife (January 31, 2009)
ISBN: 9781103170821 |
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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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