Hunger — Knut Hamsun

Something new is happening here some new thought about the nature of art is being proposed in Hunger An art that is indistinguishable from the life of the artist who makes it an art that is the direct expression of the effort to express itself Paul Auster from his introduction The whole modern school of fiction in the twentieth century stems from Hamsun They were all Hansun s disciples Thomas Mann and Arthur Schnitzler and even such American writers as Fitzgerald and Hemingway Isaac Bashevis Singer After reading Hunger one can easily understand why Hamsun was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature Hunger should appeal to any reader who is interested in a masterpiece by one of this century s great novelists James Goldwasser Detroit News

Something new is happening here some new thought about the nature of art is being proposed in Hunger An art that is indistinguishable from the life of the artist who makes it an art that is the direct expression of the effort to express itself Paul Auster from his introduction The whole modern school of fiction in the twentieth century stems from Hamsun They were all Hansun s disciples Thomas Mann and Arthur Schnitzler and even such American writers as Fitzgerald and Hemingway Isaac Bashevis Singer After reading Hunger one can easily understand why Hamsun was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature Hunger should appeal to any reader who is interested in a masterpiece by one of this century s great novelists James Goldwasser Detroit News

Provides a new perspective on the novel in the light of Hamsuns poetry of the nerves by discussing not only the affective life of the narrator in this perspective but also the urban context which embodies his extended mind The translation reflects new changes in scholarship and provides a fresh and sharp edged sense of the narrative voice Pays specific attention to the relation between the segments of text that were published earlier and the novel as it appeared in 1890

Hunger Norwegian Sult is a novel by the Norwegian author Knut Hamsun and was published in its final form in 1890 Parts of it had been published anonymously in the Danish magazine Ny Jord in 1888 The novel has been hailed as the literary opening of the 20th century and an outstanding example of modern psychology driven literature It hails the irrationality of the human mind in an intriguing and sometimes humorous novel It has been translated into English three times in 1899 by Mary Chavelita Dunne under the alias George Egerton by Robert Bly in 1967 and in 1996 by Sverre Lyngstad whose translation is considered definitive