Hunger
A Novel
A true classic of modern literature that has been described as one of the most disturbing novels in existence (Time Out), Hunger is the story of a Norwegian artist who wanders the streets, struggling on the edge of starvation. As hunger overtakes him, he slides inexorably into paranoia and despair. The descent into madness is recounted by the unnamed narrator in increasingly urgent and disjointed prose, as he loses his grip on reality.Arising from Hamsun's belief that literature ought to be about the mysterious workings of the human mind -- an attempt, he wrote, to describe the whisper of the blood and the pleading of the bone marrow -- Hunge…
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Produktdetails
Weitere Autoren: Bly, Robert (Übers.)
- ISBN: 978-1-4299-3093-2
- EAN: 9781429930932
- Produktnummer: 22468017
- Verlag: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2008
- Seitenangabe: 272 S.
- Plattform: EPUB
- Masse: 193 KB
- Auflage: First Edition
Über den Autor
Knut Hamsun; Translated from the Norwegian and with an afterword by Robert Bly; Introduction by Paul Auster
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