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Nobel Prize winner Knut Hamsun (1858–1952) worked as a laborer in both Scandinavia and America before establishing himself as a successful playwright and novelist.
Sverre Lyngstad, the preeminent scholar of Norwegian literature, is Distinguished Professor Emeritus of English and Comparative Literature at the New Jersey Institute of Technology.
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9781101144022
- Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group
- Publication date: 02/01/1998
- Sold by: Penguin Group
- Format: eBook
- Pages: 240
- File size: 325 KB
- Age Range: 18 Years
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One of the first modernist novels
First published in Norway in 1890, Hunger probes into the depths of consciousness with frightening and gripping power. Like the works of Dostoyevsky, it marks an extraordinary break with Western literary and humanistic traditions.
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Knut Hamsun’s writing is magical, his sentences are glowing, he could write about anything and make it alive.” —Karl Ove Knausgaard, The New York Times Book ReviewLondon Review of Books
Hunger was published in 1890 and its power has not fadedHerald
Disturbing and difficult as this nightmarish novel is, it is a work of imaginative brilliance that resonates in our own dayTimes Literary Supplement
An excellent new translation . . . this Hunger deserves to be the standard English versionRebecca West
Hamsun has the qualities that belong to the very great, a complete omniscience on human natureObserver
Hunger is the crux of Hamsun's claims to mastery. This is the classic novel of humiliation, even beyond DostoevskyLaÃs Lenski
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 versionTime Out
One of the most disturbing novels in existence