Hunger
By: Knut Hamsun ; translation and afterword by Robert Bly ; with introduction by Paul Auster.
Contributors: Bly, Robert.
Edition: Revised Edition, 4th printing
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and  Giroux
Published: 2000
Place of publication: New York, USA
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 242
ISBN-13: 9780374525286
Copyright date: 1995
Subjects: Authors, Norwegian -- 19th century -- Fiction; Genius -- Fiction; Depression, Mental -- Fiction; Oslo (Norway) -- Fiction
Description: Originally published in 1890, this classic of modern literature follows an impoverished Norwegian writer through the streets of Christiania (now Olso) as he struggles on the edge of starvation. Existing on what little money he makes from selling the occasional article to the local paper, and down to pawning the clothes on his back, the young writer slowly loses control of his reason and begins to slip increasingly into bouts of madness, paranoia, and despair.

A gripping portrait of an artist struggling for integrity, Hunger mirrors the dire straits of Hamsun's own life when he brought this, his then incomplete first novel, to a publisher in 1888.

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Notes: US/CAN