Sult
Excerpt
"Det var i den Tid, jeg gik omkring og sulted i Kristiania, denne forunderlige By, som ingen forlader, før han har fået Mærker af den . . . . "
About this book
A penniless writer roams the streets of Kristiania, drifting between small jobs, refusals, and brief periods of grace. As his hunger deepens, so does his inner life, becoming sharper, more erratic, and oddly lighter. The closer he gets to collapse, the freer he feels: free from convention, free from obligation, free from himself. What starves the body liberates the self, if only for moments. In this groundbreaking novel, Hamsun turns hunger into a harsh spiritual discipline and a meditation on the liberating power of deprivation. This bilingual edition presents the original text side-by-side with a translation.