June Books 19) Hunger, by Knut Hamsun

[nwhyte]

Quite a short book, written in 1890 by a young Norwegian writer who went on to won the Nobel Prize (and in his old age became a Fascist). It seemed to me to fit fairly comfortably between Dostoyevsky and Joyce, with the former's existential angst and the latter's intimate but also intensely geographical observation of humanity. Hamsun's hero is

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[redfiona99]

I'm intrigued by the essay, but translation interests me.

[frumiousb]

I really like Hamsun-- the Hunger was the first I read by him.