Knut Hamsun

Hunger (eBook, ePUB)

Übersetzer: Lyngstad, Sverre

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

"Hunger is the crux of Hamsun's claims to mastery. This is the classic novel of humiliation, even beyond Dostoevsky." George Steiner, Observer

Hunger is the compelling journey into the mind of a young writer who is driven by starvation to constantly fluctuating extremes of euphoria and despair. It is a study of the psychological hinterlands
- the very edges of experience - where few writers have the courage to tread.

"A work of pioneering modernism ... black, funny, evocative, exasperating. A magical and terrible insight into the human soul. Everyone should read it." Irish Times

"Superb ... the book's greatness lies in its ability to point up the bleak humour in the hopeless circumstances of the narrator ... in the startling descriptions of the combined effects of despair and literary compulsion ... compelling." Scotsman

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: University of Pennsylvania Press, Inc.
• Erscheinungstermin: 21. September 2001
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781847673640
• Artikelnr.: 39501495

Autorenporträt

Knut Hamsun was born in Norway in 1859. Hunger was his first novel. He went on to write many works of fiction, including Mysteries, Pan and Victoria. He died in 1952, and since then a growing number of readers have been drawn to his work for its extraordinary qualities of insight and imagination.

Sverre Lyngstad has translated a number of Knut Hamun's novels. He is the recipient of several awards and honours, including the St Olav Medal and the Knight's Cross, First Class, of the Royal Norwegian Order of Merit. He died in 2011.

Rezensionen

Hunger is the crux of Hamsun's claims to mastery. This is the classic novel of humiliation, even beyond Dostoevsky Observer