Hunger

Hunger itself becomes at once an ecstasy and a madness.

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About this edition

In the raw autumn of a northern city, a young writer walks the streets with empty pockets and a burning mind. He pawns the buttons off his coat, gnaws a bone begged at a butcher's door, invents proud lies to hide his ruin, and fills page after page that no editor will buy. As his body wastes, his thoughts turn feverish, exalted, and strange.

First published in 1890, Hunger broke the mould of the European novel: a fierce, first-person descent into the mind of a starving man that made Hamsun's name and turned the course of modern fiction, prefiguring Kafka, Joyce, and the whole inward turn of the century to come.

This Northlume Classic Library edition gives the classic George Egerton translation, freshly typeset in EB Garamond and Marcellus, with an original mixed media illustration by JVB Atelier Designs.

Details

• Knut Hamsun (1859–1952)
• Translated by George Egerton
• Northlume Classic Library
• Paperback and hardcover, 6 × 9, 172 pages