Hunger : Man,s Struggle to Feed Himself /
John Scott
- USA, Washington Square Press : 1974.
- 116 Pages : pbk. 18 cm.
Knut Hamsun’s Hunger is a psychological novel that follows the mental and physical decline of an unnamed young writer living in Kristiania (modern-day Oslo). The novel is largely autobiographical and is told from a first-person perspective, focusing intensely on the narrator’s inner thoughts, emotions, and hallucinations as he struggles with extreme poverty and starvation.