Hunger
Penguin Publishing Group · Print & ebook · February 1, 1998
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- Who it’s for
- A close, unsettling encounter with consciousness, where hunger sharpens the strangeness of thought.
- Themes
- Consciousness and inner life, Starvation and the body, Modernist literary experimentation
- Genres
- The Classics, Psychological Fiction, Scandinavian Literary Collections
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A modernist masterpiece: the Nobel Prize winner’s first and most important novel A Penguin Classic First published in Norway in 1890, Hunger probes the depths of consciousness with frightening and gripping power. Contemptuous of novels of his time and what he saw as their stereotypical plots and empty characters, Knut Hamsun embarked on “an attempt to describe the strange, peculiar life of the mind, the mysteries of the nerves in a starving body.”
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Like the works of Dostoyevsky, it marks an extraordinary break with Western literary and humanistic traditions. For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,800 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.
Inside the Mind
A close, unsettling encounter with consciousness, where hunger sharpens the strangeness of thought.
Come here for
- Modernist fiction that turns inward
- A classic that unsettles familiar literary conventions
Expect
- A probing view of the mind and nerves
- An intense, gripping reading experience
Where it sits
| Scandinavian Literary Collections | 62% |
|---|---|
| The Classics | 49% |
| Psychological Fiction | 46% |
Percentages are BookFrontier’s reading of the book.
Publisher categories
- The Classics
- Psychological Fiction
- Scandinavian Literary Collections
- Authors
- Knut Hamsun
- Publisher
- Penguin Publishing Group
- Published
- February 1, 1998
- Format
- Print & ebook
- Theme
- Consciousness and inner life · Starvation and the body · Modernist literary experimentation
- Reading lane
- The Classics