Contemptuous of contemporary novels and what he saw as stereotypical plots and empty characters, in 1890 Knut Hamsun wrote Hunger, which is a searing excursion into the realm of the irrational.
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Contemptuous of novels of his time and what he saw as their stereotypical plots and empty characters, Knut Hamsun embarked on an attempt to describe the strange, peculiar life of the mind, the mysteries of the nerves in a starving body.
A modernist masterpiece: the Nobel Prize winner\'s first and most important novel A Penguin Classic First published in Norway in 1890, Hunger probes the depths of consciousness with frightening and gripping power.
In a moment-by-moment internal monologue, Hamsun reveals the profound anguish of a struggling writer facing the possibility of death in a world indifferent to his existence.
Contemptuous of contemporary novels and what he saw as stereotypical plots and empty characters, in 1890 Knut Hamsun wrote Hunger, which is a searing excursion into the realm of the irrational
