Hamsun, Knut, 1859-1952

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Wikipedia page about this book: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hunger_(Hamsun_novel) Wikipedia page about this book: https://fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/N%C3%A4lk%C3%A4_(romaani) Release date is 2016-10-25

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"Nälkä" by Knut Hamsun is a novel published in 1890. Set in late 19th-century Kristiania, it follows an unnamed starving young man wandering the streets as his mental and physical state deteriorates. While trying to maintain respectability, he descends into a delusionary existence, overwhelmed by hunger and his own self-destructive choices. This psychology-driven work explores the irrational workings of the human mind through a series of encounters, depicting the darker side of modern urban life with both intensity and dark humor. (This is an automatically generated summary.)



Authors -- Fiction Norway -- Fiction Hunger -- Fiction Starvation -- Fiction Urban poor -- Fiction

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