In Hunger, we follow one unnamed narrator who goes about his daily business in Kristiania (Oslo), Norway. Hamsun explores mental and physical traumas of the character in a masterful work that inspired some of the greatest philosophical fiction authors of the twentieth century, emphasising in his work that the fight to survive in a big city may take a shape of complete absurdity. He is hard-working and not demanding, with food and shelter being his main wishes. Our unnamed narrator is a freelance writer who has one “ambition” in his life: not to die from hunger. Translated from the Norwegian by Sverre Lyngstad, Hunger explores the daily life of one lonely and desperate man on the brink of starvation in a large city. Knut Hamsun is a Nobel Prize Winner for Literature whose existentialist literary work Hunger predates Franz Kafka’s The Trial and Albert Camus’ The Stranger.
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