Hunger
Excerpt
"It was during that time I went about hungry in Kristiania, that wondrous city which no one leaves until it has left its mark on him… "
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.