Hunger
- 7 Jan 2016
- 9781782117124
- £9.99
- 288 pp
- 126×196mm
- 20 Nov 2008
- 9781847673640
- £7.99
- 272 pp
In a few words
The Nobel Prize-winning author Knut Hamsun’s Hunger, an influential work of twentieth-century modern literature, is now a Canon
In a few words
A classic by the Nobel Prize-winning author, Hunger is widely considered to be the forefather of twentieth-century modern literature
Hunger is the crux of Hamsun's claims to mastery. This is the classic novel of humiliation, even beyond Dostoevsky
One of the most disturbing novels in existence
Hunger is the crux of Hamsun's claims to mastery. This is the classic novel of humiliation, even beyond Dostoevsky
One of the most disturbing novels in existence
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INTRODUCTION BY JO NESBØ
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.
More about
the book
INTRODUCTION BY JO NESBØ
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 excellent new translation . . . this Hunger deserves to be the standard English version
Hamsun has the qualities that belong to the very great, a complete omniscience on human nature
Rebecca West
Disturbing and difficult as this nightmarish novel is, it is a work of imaginative brilliance that resonates in our own day
Hunger is undoubtedly one of the most important novels of the modern age. At last it has found a translator capable of doing justice to its immense power and complexity: Lyngstad's deserves to become the standard English version
Duncan Mcclean
An excellent new translation . . . this Hunger deserves to be the standard English version
Hamsun has the qualities that belong to the very great, a complete omniscience on human nature
Rebecca West
Disturbing and difficult as this nightmarish novel is, it is a work of imaginative brilliance that resonates in our own day
Hunger is undoubtedly one of the most important novels of the modern age. At last it has found a translator capable of doing justice to its immense power and complexity: Lyngstad's deserves to become the standard English version
Duncan Mcclean
Knut Hamsun
View profileKnut Hamsun was born in Norway in 1859. Hunger was his first novel. He went on to write many works of fiction, including Mysteries, Pan and Victoria. He died in 1952, and since then a growing number of readers have been drawn to his work for its extraordinary qualities of insight and imagination.
Sverre Lyngstad has translated a number of Knut Hamsun’s novels. He is the recipient of several awards and honours, including the St Olav Medal and the Knight’s Cross, First Class, of the Royal Norwegian Order of Merit. He died in 2011.
Knut Hamsun
View profileKnut Hamsun was born in Norway in 1859. Hunger was his first novel. He went on to write many works of fiction, including Mysteries, Pan and Victoria. He died in 1952, and since then a growing number of readers have been drawn to his work for its extraordinary qualities of insight and imagination.
Sverre Lyngstad has translated a number of Knut Hamun’s novels. He is the recipient of several awards and honours, including the St Olav Medal and the Knight’s Cross, First Class, of the Royal Norwegian Order of Merit. He died in 2011.
