Hunger

Translated by Sverre Lyngstad, and with an introduction by Paul Auster.

First published in 1890, Hunger is regarded as one of the major modernist novels, anticipating and influencing much fiction that was to follow, from Joyce to Kafka to Camus and Kelman. Discover this extraordinary classic in its beautiful new edition.

Praise for Hunger:

'Never has the Nobel Prize been awarded to one worthier of it.'

Thomas Mann

'Its flashing power has not faded.'

London Review of Books

'An excellent new translation...this Hunger deserves to be the standard English version.'

Times Literary Supplement

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

Observer

'At the vanguard of modernist endeavour, Hamsun left his mark on writers as diverse as Kafka and Hemingway. His most acclaimed work, Hunger, is more extraordinary because it predates the flourishing of modernist literature in the first decades of the 20th Century…Hunger is a disturbing book in which not much happens, yet it’s influence on…modernist fiction is incalculable. Sverre Lyngstad’s fine translation with its illuminating introduction by Paul Auster is essential reading.’

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