Knut Hamsun

Hunger is a painful novel in that you find yourself hoping for the best and finding that while your protagonist does as well he endlessly tortures himself.

Hunger

marie

jeg sultet bitterlig, ønsket meg død og borte, ble sentimental og gråt

this has been living rent free in my head since i read it like what do u mean 

jeg føler meg grepet av en selsom lyst til å gjøre denne dame redd, følge efter henne og fortredige henne på en eller annen måte.

Lovro Oreskovic

Read the croatian translation. I was really mad at the main protagonist, but this is a really good book.

Dated in terms of the content but I have to commend the writing style and the translation—very vivid imagery of a man falling into insanity

Brandy

If you enjoy Crime and Punishment you should read this book too!

Ayşe Özkan 

I really enjoyed the the writer's style- stream of consciousness kinda storytelling. As much as I enjoyed it, it was also a little confusing at some parts.

INTRODUCTION BY JO NESBO AFTERWORD BY PAUL AUSTER Nineteenth-century Kristiania is an unforgiving place, and work is thin on the ground. Roaming the streets of Norway's capital, a penniless young writer searches for inspiration whilst trying desperately to make ends meet. Driven to extraordinary lengths, sleeping under the stars with his stomach growling, the writer's behaviour becomes increasingly irrational and his world spirals into chaos. Hunger was Knut Hamsun's first novel and earned him the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1920. A disturbing and darkly humorous masterpiece of existential fiction, Hunger anticipated and influenced some of the twentieth century's most acclaimed writers including Camus, Kafka and Fante.

An account of a total and unmitigated descent into madness and delusion as the mind is sawn and torn apart by the contradicting anxieties searing it. Rambling, incoherent, unsure and hesitant. Incessant rationalisation and validation yet the inability to act forcefully or consistently. Suffocated under the mass of inner thoughts, a self-imposed exile from the world and reality. A mind untethered and raging.

Anas A

Hellboy TCR

What a fantastic piece of Literature. I had read the Malayalam translation back in school days, but the English version bowled me over once again. One of my favourite novels of all time, I guess this one belongs to the all-time top 10.

Alfredo santos

First of all this book is a tough read. It talks about the spiraling to the bottom of poverty and of one self in such a real way it gives you the frills and lets you sulking in thought for days to come. You will never see homeless people in a common/indifferent way again. 

The prose is magnificent. The character is a mix of Palahniuk meets Kerouac and written by Dostoyevsky and Gogol. Just beautiful and brilliant.

It's so amazingly written and so witty that is hard to believe it's a book from the 19th century!

The writer doesn't go into deep description of the setting, although the story takes place in Oslo, which gives it a wider opportunity to focus on the mental development of the character. 

I found out about Knut on an exhibition at the Tate in London, and although I lived in Oslo, had never heard about him! ..... Norsk folk, you need to make a massive statue of the man!

Gulshan Hasanzada

"Özümə iş axtararkən, sadəcə gündəlik yeməyə çörəyim olsun deyə çabaladıqca Tanrı yolumu kəsirdi, Tanrını bağışlamayacam": Bəlkə də aclığı ən yaxşı şəkildə izah edən əsərdir. Səfalət və aclığı, şəxsin özünə hörməti, öz prinsiplərini çeynəməyə aclığın belə mane ola bilmədiyini göstərən kitabdır. Əsər ümumi olaraq Lyublanada ac və səfil dolaşan idealist gənc yazarın yoxsulluğu haqqındadır. Son zamanlar oxuduqlarım içərisində mənə ən çox fizioloji olaraq təsir edən kitab oldu. əsəri oxuyarkən həqiqətən aclıq hissi yaşayırdım. Qəhrəmanın yaşadığı emosional, fizioloji və psixoloji iztirabları oxucu da yaşayır.

Aclik

Irem

Açlığın kademe kademe ilerleyişi, sanrılar eşliğindeki delirme alametleri ve bir türlü tükenip sinmeyen bir gurur. Çok güzel bir metin lakin bir o kadar da okuruna acı çektiren, sinir gerdiren. 

Ki üzerine yazarın hususi hayatı da ve görüşleri de eklendiğinde satır aralarında durup yazarı silkelemek, bir adın öteye geçip tokatlamak istiyor insan. Ama okumaktan, anlatıma hayran olmaktan da geri duramıyorsunuz.

En ung mand går rundt i Kristianias gader fuld af drømme og hallucinationer, som er skabt af sult

Sult

Hooman Rostami

nope

S. R. Spencer

Hunger by Knut Hamsun - The Original Classic Edition Finally available, a high quality book of the original classic edition. This is a new and freshly published edition of this culturally important work, which is now, at last, again available to you. Enjoy this classic work today. These selected paragraphs distill the contents and give you a quick look inside: From there his parents moved when he was only four to settle in the far northern district of Lofoden--that land of extremes, where the year, and not the day, is evenly divided between darkness and light; where winter is a long dreamless sleep, and summer a passionate dream without sleep; where land and sea meet and intermingle so gigantically that man is all but crushed between the two--or else raised to titanic measures by the spectacle of their struggle. ...But when Kareno, the irreconcilable rebel of At the Gates of the Kingdom, the heaven-storming truth-seeker of The Game of Life, and the acclaimed radical leader in the first acts of Sunset Glow, surrenders at last to the powers that be in order to gain a safe and sheltered harbor for his declining years, then another man of 29 stands ready to denounce him and to take up the rebel cry of youth to which he has become a traitor. Hamsuns ironical humor and whimsical manner of expression do more than the plot itself to knit the plays into an organic unit, and several of the characters are delightfully drawn, particularly the two women who play the greatest part in Karenos life: his wife Eline, and Teresita, who is one more of his many feminine embodiments of the passionate and changeable Northland nature. ...From 1897 to 1912 Hamsun produced a series of volumes that simply marked a further development of the tendencies shown in his first novels: Siesta, short stories, 1897; Victoria a novel with a charming love story that embodies the tenderest note in his production, 1898; In Wonderland, travelling sketches from the Caucasus, 1903; Brushwood, short stories, 1903; The Wild Choir, a collection of poems, 1904; Dreamers, a novel, 1904; Struggling Life, short stories and travelling sketches, 1905; Beneath the Autumn Star a novel, 1906; Benoni, and Rosa, two novels forming to some extent sequels to Pan, 1908; A Wanderer Plays with Muted Strings, a novel, 1909; and The Last Joy, a shapeless work, half novel and half mere uncoordinated reflections, 1912. ...I turned to a shop window and stopped in order to give him an opportunity of getting ahead, but when, after a lapse of some minutes, I again walked on there was the man still in front of me--he too had stood stock still, --without stopping to reflect I made three or four furious onward strides, caught him up, and slapped him on the shoulder.

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