Nälkä by Knut Hamsun

"Nälkä" by Knut Hamsun is a novel published in 1890. Set in late 19th-century Kristiania, it follows an unnamed starving young man wandering the streets as his mental and physical state deteriorates. While trying to maintain respectability, he descends into a delusionary existence, overwhelmed by hunger and his own self-destructive choices. This psychology-driven work explores the irrational workings of the human mind through a series of encounters, depicting the darker side of modern urban life with both intensity and dark humor. (This is an automatically generated summary.)

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Author Hamsun, Knut, 1859-1952
Translator Kärkkäinen, Viki, 1883-1946
Uniform Title Sult. Finnish
Title Nälkä
Note Wikipedia page about this book: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hunger_(Hamsun_novel) Wikipedia page about this book: fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/N%C3%A4lk%C3%A4_(romaani)
Credits Produced by Juhani Kärkkäinen and Tapio Riikonen
Reading Level Reading ease score: 50.9 (10th to 12th grade). Somewhat difficult to read.
Language Finnish
LoC Class PT: Language and Literatures: Germanic, Scandinavian, and Icelandic literatures
Subject Authors -- Fiction
Subject Norway -- Fiction
Subject Hunger -- Fiction
Subject Starvation -- Fiction
Subject Urban poor -- Fiction
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EBook-No. 53365
Release Date
Most Recently Updated Oct 23, 2024
Copyright Status Public domain in the USA.
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