Cover of Knut Hamsun: Hunger

Knut Hamsun Hunger

Price: 389 Kč
Price for Eshop: 311 Kč (€ 12.4)

VAT 0% included

New

English

In stock, ships in 24 hours


U Lužického semináře 10, Malá Strana

Book information

Canongate Books Ltd

UK

2016

Main - Canons Imprint Re-Issue

Paperback

272

Standard

297761

978-1-78211-712-4

1-78211-712-1

Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)

Annotation

Nineteenth-century Kristiania is an unforgiving place, and work is thin on the ground. Roaming the streets of Norway's capital, a penniless young writer searches for inspiration whilst trying desperately to make ends meet. Driven to extraordinary lengths, sleeping under the stars with his stomach growling, the writer's behaviour becomes increasingly irrational and his world spirals into chaos. Hunger was Knut Hamsun's first novel and earned him the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1920. A disturbing and darkly humorous masterpiece of existential fiction, Hunger anticipated and influenced some of the twentieth century's most acclaimed writers including Camus, Kafka and Fante.

Ask question

You can ask us about this book and we'll send an answer to your e-mail.

Write new comment