Hunger

By Knut Hamsun

Categories: Literature & Fiction

Knut Hamsun's 1890 novel about a starving young writer wandering the streets of Kristiania (Oslo), a landmark of modernist fiction.

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• Ryan Holiday
• Shane Parrish: “This book, which has been called, “one of the most disturbing novels in existence,” is a chilling first-person narrative about the conflict between self-preservation and death. The narrator is starving. He wants to write to earn some money so that he can eat.”