Brand new edition of Knut Hamsun's most famous work, with an introduction by Paul Auster
Hunger is regarded as one of the major modernist novels, anticipating and influencing much fiction that was to follow, from Joyce to Kafka to Camus and Kelman.
Set in Oslo, Hunger is a compelling journey into the mind of a young writer who is driven by starvation to constantly fluctuating extremes of euphoria and despair. It is a study of the psychological hinterlands - to the very edges of experience - where few writers have the courage to tread.
The Reviews
'Hunger is essential reading, paving the way for everyone from Kafka to Kerouac. If you've ever dressed in black, worried about "selling out" or furrowed a brow over coffee while reading an obscure bohemian novel, you owe Knut Hamsun a deep debt of gratitude.'Big Issue in the North
'Disturbing and difficult as this nightmarish novel is, it is a work of imaginative brilliance that resonates in our own day.'
Herald
Paperback
272 pages
Price: £7.99
ISBN: 9781841958194 Other editions
Paperback
Knut Hamsun was born in Norway in 1859. Hunger was his first novel and was published to great acclaim in 1890. He went on to write thirty novels and was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1920, but his later work never matched the dazzling originality of his earlier novels. He died in 1953.
