- Fiction Classics, Literary Fiction, Mental Depression, Norwegian Authors
First published in Norway in 1890, Hunger probes into the depths of consciousness with frightening and gripping power. Like the works of Dostoyevsky, it marks an extraordinary break with Western literary and humanistic traditions.
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Grave, character-led, earnest and prestige.
- gravecomic
- character-ledplot-driven
- earnestironic
- unpretentiousprestige
- contemplativerelentless
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About the book
- Author
- Knut Hamsun
- First published
- 1890
- Pages
- 196
- Publisher
- Bibliotech Press, IndyPublish.com, HarperCollins Publishers
- Editions
- 154
- Language
- snd, urd, tur, Russian
- ISBN
- 9789997411136
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“It was in those days when I wandered about hungry in Kristiania, that strange city which no one leaves before it has set its mark upon him. . . .”
Norwegian writer, Nobel Prize winner in 1920.
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