There was no proper fastening to the door, either, and no stove. The bare room, the floor of which rocked up and down with every step I took across it, seemed like a gasping, sinister coffin. The ever-increasing noise in the streets lured me out. It promised to be a clear day-autumn, that tender, cool time of the year, when all things change their colour, and die, had come to us. I leant with my elbows resting on the window-frame and gazed into open space. Farther away lay the ruins of a burnt-out smithy, which some labourers were busy clearing away. From where I was standing I had a view of a clothes, line and an open field. I heard the clock below strike eight as I got up and put on my clothes. I could even make out the grinning lean letters of 'winding-sheets to be had at Miss Andersen's' on the right of it. Hunger Knut Hamsun Sult (1890 Hunger) is Hamsun's breakthrough novel about a young writer struggling to maintain his dignity while trying to survive in a desolate and lonely world. Hunger: Roman.Lighter, and I took to reading the advertisements near the door. Parts of it had been published anonymously in the Danish magazine. Sales Rank Publication Date Lowest New Price Hunger (Norwegian: Sult) is a novel by the Norwegian author Knut Hamsun published in 1890. His ordeal, enhanced by his inability or unwillingness to pursue a professional career, which he deems unfit for someone of his abilities, is pictured in a series of encounters which Hamsun himself described as 'a series of analyses.' While he vainly tries to maintain an outer shell of respectability, his mental and physical decay are recounted in detail. Set in late 19th century Kristiania, the novel recounts the adventures of a starving young man whose sense of reality is giving way to a delusionary existence on the darker side of a modern metropolis. Hunger, novel by Knut Hamsun, published in 1890 as Sult.

Written after Hamsun's return from an ill-fated tour of America, Hunger is loosely based on the author's own impoverished life before his breakthrough in 1890. 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 by Sverre Lyngstad, whose translation is considered definitive. It hails the irrationality of the human mind in an intriguing and sometimes humorous novel.

The novel is hailed as the literary opening of the 20th century and an outstanding example of modern, psychology-driven literature. Parts of it had been published anonymously in the Danish magazine Ny Jord in 1888. It tells the story of an unnamed vagrant who stumbles around the streets of Norways capital looking for food. Hunger is a novel by the Norwegian author Knut Hamsun and was published in its final form in 1890. Knut Hamsun believed that modern literature should express the complexity of the human mind, nowhere is that philosophy more evident than in this stunning modern masterpiece, 'Hunger'.

Hunger by Knut Hamsun