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Hunger

Knut Hamsun

Form
Form Novel
Year
Year 1890
Originally in
Originally in Norwegian
Pages
Pages 180

A young writer starves through the streets of Christiania, too proud to beg and too strange to hold work, and his hunger becomes hallucination, comedy and a kind of ecstasy.

Christiania, this singular city, from which no man departs without carrying away the traces of his sojourn there.
Hunger, Knut Hamsun

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