Hunger (Canons): Knut Hamsun - Softcover
INTRODUCTION BY JO NESBŲ
AFTERWORD BY PAUL AUSTER
Lying awake in his attic room, a young aspiring writer prepares himself for the day ahead. He dresses and then descends into the unforgiving streets of Kristiana - one of many journeys he will come to make through this strange city, looking for inspiration and sustenance. As the narrator's behaviour becomes increasingly irrational and absurd, the reader is drawn deeper into his intense world.
First published in 1890, Hunger is Hamsun's first novel, a disturbing and darkly humorous masterpiece of existential fiction that anticipated and influenced much twentieth-century fiction, including the work of Camus, Kafka and Fante.
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"Hunger is the crux of Hamsun's claims to mastery. This is the classic novel of humiliation, even beyond Dostoevsky" (Observer)
"One of the most disturbing novels in existence" (Time Out)
"An excellent new translation . . . this Hunger deserves to be the standard English version" (Times Literary Supplement)
"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" (Herald) --Observer
"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) --Duncan McClean
"Hunger was published in 1890 and its power has not faded" (London Review of Books) --London Review of Books
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"One of the most disturbing novels in existence" (Time Out)
"An excellent new translation . . . this Hunger deserves to be the standard English version" (Times Literary Supplement)
"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" (Herald) --Observer
"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) --Duncan McClean
"Hunger was published in 1890 and its power has not faded" (London Review of Books) --London Review of Books
The Nobel Prize-winning author Knut Hamsun's Hunger, an influential work of twentieth-century modern literature, is now a Canon
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- PublisherCanongate Canons
- Publication date2016
- ISBN 10 1782117121
- ISBN 13 9781782117124
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