![]() Proud, when he has to sell items to the pawnshop, he does so under various pretexts, though he probably is not fooling anyone.Īnd without disclosing much of the plot, that is about it concerning how the plot moves. He yearns for and yet rejects any overt attempt to help him. During his wanderings he encounters several characters, most of whom seem to pity him. In the book divided into four parts, we watch the man wander around Norway’s capital Kristiania (called Oslo since 1924) looking for food, going from bad to worse to lucky or blessed to bad to worse again and again. Here we meet an unnamed young man - a starving writer who is apparently a bit of an autobiographical version of Hamsun. ![]() For some strange reason, when I returned home with the book I no longer had the urge to read it, and it sat on my shelf until the other day when, still not having an urge to read it, I decided it was high time to work on the pile of boughten but neglected books. ![]() Several months ago I experienced a sudden urge to go to the bookstore and buy Hunger, by Nobel Laureatte Knut Hamsun. ![]()
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