Hunger A New Translation
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Taschenbuch
Erscheinungsdatum
16.02.2025
Verlag
Independently PublishedSeitenzahl
192
Maße (L/B/H)
22,9/15,2/1,2 cm
Gewicht
241 g
Übersetzt von
Liam Ferousse
Sprache
Englisch
EAN
9798310965461
A young writer wanders the streets of Kristiania with nothing-no money, no food, no prospects. Only pride. And hunger.
Published in 1890, Knut Hamsun's Hunger follows an unnamed protagonist through the psychological descent of starvation. As his body weakens, his mind fractures. He talks to himself, lies compulsively, spurns help out of stubborn dignity, and watches helplessly as reality slips away into hallucination and delirium.
This is not a conventional story of poverty. There are no dramatic plot turns, no redemptive arcs. Instead, Hamsun takes us inside the consciousness of a man unraveling-capturing the visceral sensations of hunger, the desperation of trying to maintain appearances when everything is falling apart, and the strange pride that keeps him from accepting the charity that could save him.
Drawing directly from his own experiences of destitution in Kristiania, Hamsun created something revolutionary: a novel that rejected the orderly realism of nineteenth-century literature in favor of fragmented, stream-of-consciousness intensity. Hunger has been called "the literary opening of the 20th century," and its influence echoes through Kafka, Hemingway, Hesse, and countless others who followed.
What emerges is a raw, unflinching portrait of human vulnerability-a man at war with himself, with society, with his own body's demands. More than a century after its publication, Hunger remains essential reading: a book that captures what it means to be isolated, desperate, and too proud to surrender.
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