“My madness was a delirium
of weakness, exhaustion, but it wasn’t unconscious…”
Hunger is the masterpiece of
Knut Hamsun, one of the most successful novelists of this century. It is a masterfully written semi-autobiographical novel.
It tells the physical and mental journey of a young writer, who falls into the streets of Christiana (which became Oslo after 1925) in the grip of hunger and despair, full of hallucinations on the verge of madness.
Hunger can be consi ...