Hunger

Knut Hamsun

⏱ 8 minRealist classic

A nameless young would-be writer, penniless and starving in the streets of Christiania, drifts through hunger-warped exaltations, manias, and hallucinations, in a raw rendering of a consciousness pushed to the edge of madness. Hamsun's revolutionary founding work of literary modernism.

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