Hunger: A Winter of Starvation in Kristiania
Knut Hamsun
Sep 2026 · Aeneas Press
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Complete and unabridged, with 57 full-page plates by Edvard Munch, Peder Severin Krøyer and Michael Ancher. A young writer walks the streets of Christiania with nothing in his stomach, pawning his waistcoat, refusing help, and narrating his own mind as it comes apart. Hamsun had lived it — road laborer, tram conductor, farmhand in America — and the book made him famous in 1890 for a kind of attention nobody had used before. His later politics were disgraceful: he gave his Nobel medal to Goebbels. Fifty-seven plates by painters including Edvard Munch and Peder Severin Krøyer follow the northern street through rain, snow and wind, matching the novel's cold, exposed wandering.
Complete and unabridged, with 57 full-page plates by Edvard Munch, Peder Severin Krøyer and Michael Ancher. A young writer walks the streets of Christiania with nothing in his stomach, pawning his waistcoat, refusing help, and narrating his own mind as it comes apart. Hamsun had lived it — road l...
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Knut Hamsun was a Norwegian novelist who worked as a road labourer, tram conductor and farmhand in America before Hunger (1890) made his name with its feverish first-person voice. He won the Nobel Prize in 1920 and is counted among the founders of modern fiction. He also supported the Nazi occupation of Norway, gave his Nobel medal to Goebbels, and was tried for it at eighty-six.
Knut Hamsun was a Norwegian novelist who worked as a road labourer, tram conductor and farmhand in America before Hunger (1890) made his name with its feverish first-person voice. He won the Nobel Prize in 1920 and is counted among the founders of modern fiction. He also supported the Nazi occupa...
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