Hamsun influenced many of the major 20th-century writers who followed him, including Kafka, Joyce and Henry Miller. The book brilliantly probes the psychodynamics of alienation, obsession, and self-destruction, painting an unforgettable portrait of a man driven by forces beyond his control to the edge of the abyss. The unnamed narrator of this plotless episodic work is an introspective young man whose hunger to succeed as a writer matches his intense physical hunger. In 1920, his novel Growth of the Soil, a book describing the attraction and honesty of working with the land, won the Nobel Prize in Literature. It is the semiautobiographical chronicle of the physical and psychological hunger experienced by an aspiring writer in late 19th-century Norway. The Aesthetics of Hunger: Knut Hamsun, Modernism, and Starvations Global Frame. Pursuing the career of a writer, he is painfully experiencing the discrepancy between the ideal and the material world. He is a poor journalist making two ends meet. One of the most important and controversial writers of the 20th century, Knut Hamsun made literary history with the publication in 1890 of this powerful, autobiographical novel recounting the abject poverty, hunger and despair of a young writer struggling to achieve self-discovery and its ultimate artistic expression. Hunger, novel by Knut Hamsun, published in 1890 as Sult. Written by Aleksei Marchyn The protagonist The main character of the story never reveals his name. More pictures of this book available upon request. Condition: Good, edge and corner wear, light nicks at spine, wrinkling at bottom edges, price sticker on rear cover.

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