Hunger.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Hamsun, Knut.

Contributor:

Rem, Tore.

Cave, Terence.

Series:

Oxford World's Classics Series

Language:

English

Physical Description:

1 online resource (225 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Oxford : Oxford University Press, Incorporated, 2015.

Summary:

Hunger is the first-person story of a young man desperately trying to establish himself in the city as a writer, living in shabby lodgings where he can seldom afford to pay the rent, eating almost nothing, and engaging spasmodically and manically with landladies, eccentric elderly men, policemen, shopkeepers, pawnbrokers, and others on the way.

Contents:

Cover

Hunger

Copyright

Contents

Introduction

A new non-novel

Genesis

Fragments

The poetics of the city: anonymity and agency

Mimosas, threads, and brains

Life

Reception

Modernism

Openness

Translator's Note

Note on the Text

Select Bibliography

Biography

Critical Studies

Letters and a primary text

Further Reading in the Oxford World's Classics Series

A Chronology of Knut Hamsun

Map of Kristiania (1900)

First Fragment

Second Fragment

Third Fragment

Fourth Fragment

Appendix A

Appendix B: Commentary on Place Names, Money, and Maps

Place Names

Money

The Maps

Appendix C: Variants in the Third Fragment

1. Translation p. 103: the narrator's blasphemous outburst

2. Translation pp. 108-17: the 'love-scene'with Ylajali

3. Editorial comments

Explanatory Notes

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Notes:

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

Other Format:

Print version: Hamsun, Knut Hunger

ISBN:

9780192677341

OCLC:

1446130551