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"Other reviewers have mentioned the stream of consciousness style and the focus on inner psychology rather than conventional plot.
One thing I noticed: the narrator lies to most of the people around him. He also lies to himself -- sets up deceptive illusions to make himself raise the energy to do things. I've read the book only once, but I believe that some of the more fantastic scenes with are just hallucinations. Where the narrator's experience stops and the hallucinations begin is a delicate line. I'll have to read the book again and see if I can puzzle it out."
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Hunger Knut Hamsun 9783548291093 Books Reviews
- Hunger is required reading for serious students of all ages because it is a seminal book of the twentieth century even though it was written in the 1880s by the youthful visionary Hamsun at the start of his career. His masterful orchestration of increasingly vivid visceral descriptions of a young writer's struggle to earn enough to eat and sleep like a regular member of society are unforgettable. I strongly urge anyone to spend time with this masterpiece in order to understand the transition from older forms of the novel into modern literature. Hamsun invented the use of highly subjective interior narrative to depict both romantic stress and the complexity of self-knowledge gained through young people's attempts to negotiate with the opposite sex.
- A great psychological novel by an author new to me. Thank goodness for literature in translation. The author had an extremely difficult life as a young man, even by Norwegian emigre standards in the Midwest. The novel is set in an insignificant little town, in which the protagonist goes mad, inflating his worth as a writer even as the world has no use for his thoughts. The biggest issue is how to get a little food to sustain him and how to find a decent place to live. He generally fails at both, taking advantage of everyone he knows, while resenting their inattention to his greatness. Needless to say, his hunger is multidimensional. The book is reminiscent of Dostoevsky, but without the gore and murder. The protagonist has violence in him, but he directs it at his own destruction. Crazy people, it turns out, lack perspective.
- This booked grabbed my attention and I sunk into Hamsun's feverish pace of story telling, his imagined madness and real hunger. I felt I got to know him in a very intimate way, I hadn't quite experienced before, very haunting.
- This could have just as easily been one star instead of 5--what a depressing tormented ride! Very well written and presented, if you want to know the effects of hunger on a man, here it is!
- These stories are so moving. I recommend that you order it and read it. You will not be disappointed!
- Other reviewers have mentioned the stream of consciousness style and the focus on inner psychology rather than conventional plot.
One thing I noticed the narrator lies to most of the people around him. He also lies to himself -- sets up deceptive illusions to make himself raise the energy to do things. I've read the book only once, but I believe that some of the more fantastic scenes with are just hallucinations. Where the narrator's experience stops and the hallucinations begin is a delicate line. I'll have to read the book again and see if I can puzzle it out. - Hunger (Sult) was published in 1890 by the famous Norwegian author Knut Hamsun ( née Knut Pedersen).
The novel has been hailed as the literary opening of the 20th century.
Hunger is loosely based on the author's own impoverished life before his break-through in 1890.
It is about the adventures of a young man, starving in Christiania (now Oslo). His sense of reality is giving way to a delusionary existence on the darker side of a modern city. His mental and physical decay are recounted in detail.
In the famous opening lines he ambivalently describes Kristiania (Oslo) as " this wondrous city that no one leaves before it has made its marks upon him".
A fantastic novel which I give my warm recommendation! - ...I found myself. How did I live through eight decades without having read it? Thanks to the fates for my "so long life"! What a beautiful, inspired book! Few are its equal.
