![]() ![]() I found a chip of wood in the street to chew-that helped a bit.” And: “A brown orange-peel, too, that I had found in the street, and which I commenced to chew at once, had given me nausea. When he’s at his lowest, he tries to sate his hunger with odd items: “I hungered sorely. “I was bitterly hungry I wished myself dead and buried I got maudlin, and wet.” ![]() The unnamed protagonist is wandering the streets of Oslo (Kristiania at the time), impoverished, starving and trying mostly unsuccessfully to sell his writing. In Hunger, published in 1890, he takes readers inside the head of, literally, a starving artist-a writer in this case. He was known for tackling human consciousness in a new and more accurate, intimate way, pioneering-according to some-“psychological literature.” He lived for almost a hundred years (1859 – 1952) and published dozens of novels, among other creative projects. Knut Hamsun is a Norwegian writer, Nobel Prize winner (Literature, 1920) and creative force. ![]() “While the book is ostensibly about hunger, it strikes me as more of an early work focused on existential despair.” ![]()
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