Hunger

Marit i Svelten havde altid været ensom, og nu lå hun for døden. For at gøre hendes sidste timer lykkelige erklærede Christoffer Volden hende sin kærlighed og lovede at gifte sig med hende. Da Marit mod al forventning så ud til at få det bedre, fik Christoffer kolde fødder. Hans Isfolkeære forbød ham at bryde sit ord – men han var allerede forlovet med den rige Lise-Merete Gustavsen …

Marit i Svelten havde altid været ensom, og nu lå hun for døden. For at gøre hendes sidste timer lykkelige erklærede Christoffer Volden hende sin kærlighed og lovede at gifte sig med hende. Da Marit mod al forventning så ud til at få det bedre, fik Christoffer kolde fødder. Hans Isfolkeære forbød ham at bryde sit ord – men han var allerede forlovet med den rige Lise-Merete Gustavsen …

'It was at the time when I was wandering around hungry in Kristiania, that strange city no one leaves before it has set its mark on them...' Hunger is the first-person story of a young man desperately trying to establish himself in the city as a writer, living in shabby lodgings where he can seldom afford to pay the rent, eating almost nothing, and engaging spasmodically and manically with landladies, eccentric elderly men, policemen, shopkeepers, pawnbrokers, and others on the way. He wanders around the streets, sits on benches trying to write, spends a night locked in a pitch-dark police cell, thinks, slides into remarkably inventive reveries, speculates on his mental health, his ethical comportment, his relation to the divinity, the topics he might write about. The traces of a consistent narrative logic are uncertain and blurred; the voice of the narrator keeps shifting between pragmatic appraisal of his situation, wild fantasies, manic outbursts, anger, and despair. This is a story that lies on the threshold of modernism, anticipating many of the dislocations that narrative will be subject to in the decades to come. This new translation seeks to restore the startling freshness and epidermal unease of Hamsun's breakthrough story of 1890. It remains faithful to the style and voice of the text, the shifts of tense, the indirect free style, and the constant changes of register as the inner monologue moves between poetic sensitivity, wild fantasies, manic outbursts, and hyperbolic emotion. Tore Rem's introduction provides an updated and fresh account of the genesis of Hunger, its book history and its reception. ABOUT THE SERIES: For over 100 years Oxford World's Classics has made available the widest range of literature from around the globe. Each affordable volume reflects Oxford's commitment to scholarship, providing the most accurate text plus a wealth of other valuable features, including expert introductions by leading authorities, helpful notes to clarify the text, up-to-date bibliographies for further study, and much more.

'It was at the time when I was wandering around hungry in Kristiania, that strange city no one leaves before it has set its mark on them...' Hunger is the first-person story of a young man desperately trying to establish himself in the city as a writer, living in shabby lodgings where he can seldom afford to pay the rent, eating almost nothing, and engaging spasmodically and manically with landladies, eccentric elderly men, policemen, shopkeepers, pawnbrokers, and others on the way. He wanders around the streets, sits on benches trying to write, spends a night locked in a pitch-dark police cell, thinks, slides into remarkably inventive reveries, speculates on his mental health, his ethical comportment, his relation to the divinity, the topics he might write about. The traces of a consistent narrative logic are uncertain and blurred; the voice of the narrator keeps shifting between pragmatic appraisal of his situation, wild fantasies, manic outbursts, anger, and despair. This is a story that lies on the threshold of modernism, anticipating many of the dislocations that narrative will be subject to in the decades to come. This new translation seeks to restore the startling freshness and epidermal unease of Hamsun's breakthrough story of 1890. It remains faithful to the style and voice of the text, the shifts of tense, the indirect free style, and the constant changes of register as the inner monologue moves between poetic sensitivity, wild fantasies, manic outbursts, and hyperbolic emotion. Tore Rem's introduction provides an updated and fresh account of the genesis of Hunger, its book history and its reception. ABOUT THE SERIES: For over 100 years Oxford World's Classics has made available the widest range of literature from around the globe. Each affordable volume reflects Oxford's commitment to scholarship, providing the most accurate text plus a wealth of other valuable features, including expert introductions by leading authorities, helpful notes to clarify the text, up-to-date bibliographies for further study, and much more.

»Es war in jener Zeit, als ich in Kristiania umherging und hungerte, in dieser seltsamen Stadt, die keiner verlässt, ehe er von ihr gezeichnet worden ist.« So beginnt Knut Hamsuns großer Roman »Hunger«, mit dem ihm 1890 der literarische Durchbruch gelang. Atemlos verfolgt der Leser, wie ein namenloser, erfolgloser Journalist und Schriftsteller durch Kristiania, das heutige Oslo, treibt und dabei mehr und mehr in Elend gerät. Obdachlos hungert, friert, fantasiert er durch die Straßen. Die Außenwelt, Scham und Stolz verstellen ihm den Weg in ein gesichertes Leben. Ein radikaler Roman und Meilenstein modernen Erzählens, der bis heute seine Leser zeichnet. »Keine literarische Erfahrung hat sich mir tiefer eingeprägt als Knut Hamsuns Hunger.« Roger Willemsen »Voll von grotesker Komik und düsterer Tragik, aber auch voll großer Leidenschaft.« Deutschlandfunk Autobiografisch, stilbildend - ein Meilenstein der Literatur

»Es war in jener Zeit, als ich in Kristiania umherging und hungerte, in dieser seltsamen Stadt, die keiner verlässt, ehe er von ihr gezeichnet worden ist.« So beginnt Knut Hamsuns großer Roman »Hunger«, mit dem ihm 1890 der literarische Durchbruch gelang. Atemlos verfolgt der Leser, wie ein namenloser, erfolgloser Journalist und Schriftsteller durch Kristiania, das heutige Oslo, treibt und dabei mehr und mehr in Elend gerät. Obdachlos hungert, friert, fantasiert er durch die Straßen. Die Außenwelt, Scham und Stolz verstellen ihm den Weg in ein gesichertes Leben. Ein radikaler Roman und Meilenstein modernen Erzählens, der bis heute seine Leser zeichnet. »Keine literarische Erfahrung hat sich mir tiefer eingeprägt als Knut Hamsuns Hunger.« Roger Willemsen »Voll von grotesker Komik und düsterer Tragik, aber auch voll großer Leidenschaft.« Deutschlandfunk Autobiografisch, stilbildend - ein Meilenstein der Literatur

THE RECORD-BREAKING KOREAN DARK-ROMANCE SENSATION When hunger consumes you, what can be left of morality? HALF A MILLION COPIES SOLD ACROSS 10 LANGUAGES 'An instant cult classic. You have to read it' HARPER'S BAZAAR 'If Parasite takes a wide angle, Hunger uses a tight shot' ARTREVIEW 'Ambitious... A compelling read' ESQUIRE 'An instant cult classic' CRIMEREADS I could go to the police and confess. I could visit the priest and confess. I ate a person. Is that a sin? On an ordinary afternoon, a woman finds her soulmate dead in the street. She cradles the body to her chest and carries it home, where she disinfects every inch before beginning her macabre task. As the man witnesses his own interment from beyond, their two voices - living and dead - tell of a country where the rich feast and the poor starve. But this woman is no longer willing to bow before law, money, or God. A decade in the making, Hunger is a psychologically and philosophically thrilling cult phenomenon about love, capitalism, and the things they do to us. 'A feast for the literary senses' ANTON HUR, translator of Cursed Bunny 'A novel as slender as it is profound' LING LING HUANG, author of Natural Beauty 'A gutting, unforgettable ode' HENRY HOKE, author of Open Throat 'Cuts to the heart. Read at your peril' FRANCES CHA, author of If I Had Your Face

INTRODUCTION BY JO NESBØ AFTERWORD BY PAUL AUSTER Nineteenth-century Kristiania is an unforgiving place, and work is thin on the ground. Roaming the streets of Norway's capital, a penniless young writer searches for inspiration whilst trying desperately to make ends meet. Driven to extraordinary lengths, sleeping under the stars with his stomach growling, the writer's behaviour becomes increasingly irrational and his world spirals into chaos. Hunger was Knut Hamsun's first novel and earned him the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1920. A disturbing and darkly humorous masterpiece of existential fiction, Hunger anticipated and influenced some of the twentieth century's most acclaimed writers including Camus, Kafka and Fante.

INTRODUCTION BY JO NESBØ AFTERWORD BY PAUL AUSTER Nineteenth-century Kristiania is an unforgiving place, and work is thin on the ground. Roaming the streets of Norway's capital, a penniless young writer searches for inspiration whilst trying desperately to make ends meet. Driven to extraordinary lengths, sleeping under the stars with his stomach growling, the writer's behaviour becomes increasingly irrational and his world spirals into chaos. Hunger was Knut Hamsun's first novel and earned him the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1920. A disturbing and darkly humorous masterpiece of existential fiction, Hunger anticipated and influenced some of the twentieth century's most acclaimed writers including Camus, Kafka and Fante.

Welcome back to the FAYZ! This is Book 2 in the series that Stephen King calls a ‘driving, torrential narrative’. An uneasy calm has settled over Perdido Beach. But soon, fear explodes into desperation as food supplies dwindle and starvation sets in. More and more kids are developing strange powers and, just as frighteningly, so are the animals in the FAYZ: talking coyotes, swimming bats and deadly worms with razor-sharp teeth are just the beginning. For Sam Temple the strain of leadership is beginning to show and he's got more than just dwindling rations and in-fighting to worry about – Caine is back with the psychotic whiphand, Drake, by his side. And deep in the ground, the biggest danger of all is getting hungry . . . The GONE series is Lord of the Flies for the 21st century. In turns breathtaking, harrowing, and utterly terrifying. Its complex characters and moral dilemmas will delight fans of The Hunger Games, Divergent and The Maze Runner. This is dystopian fiction at its best. Have you got all 6 titles in the New York Times bestselling saga?: Gone Hunger Lies Plague Fear Light ‘I am now free to leave the FAYZ, but my time there was well spent’ Stephen King

Welcome back to the FAYZ! This is Book 2 in the series that Stephen King calls a ‘driving, torrential narrative’. An uneasy calm has settled over Perdido Beach. But soon, fear explodes into desperation as food supplies dwindle and starvation sets in. More and more kids are developing strange powers and, just as frighteningly, so are the animals in the FAYZ: talking coyotes, swimming bats and deadly worms with razor-sharp teeth are just the beginning. For Sam Temple the strain of leadership is beginning to show and he's got more than just dwindling rations and in-fighting to worry about – Caine is back with the psychotic whiphand, Drake, by his side. And deep in the ground, the biggest danger of all is getting hungry . . . The GONE series is Lord of the Flies for the 21st century. In turns breathtaking, harrowing, and utterly terrifying. Its complex characters and moral dilemmas will delight fans of The Hunger Games, Divergent and The Maze Runner. This is dystopian fiction at its best. Have you got all 6 titles in the New York Times bestselling saga?: Gone Hunger Lies Plague Fear Light ‘I am now free to leave the FAYZ, but my time there was well spent’ Stephen King

THE RECORD-BREAKING KOREAN DARK-ROMANCE SENSATION When hunger consumes you, what can be left of morality? HALF A MILLION COPIES SOLD ACROSS 10 LANGUAGES 'An instant cult classic. You have to read it' HARPER'S BAZAAR 'If Parasite takes a wide angle, Hunger uses a tight shot' ARTREVIEW 'Ambitious... A compelling read' ESQUIRE 'An instant cult classic' CRIMEREADS I could go to the police and confess. I could visit the priest and confess. I ate a person. Is that a sin? On an ordinary afternoon, a woman finds her soulmate dead in the street. She cradles the body to her chest and carries it home, where she disinfects every inch before beginning her macabre task. As the man witnesses his own interment from beyond, their two voices - living and dead - tell of a country where the rich feast and the poor starve. But this woman is no longer willing to bow before law, money, or God. A decade in the making, Hunger is a psychologically and philosophically thrilling cult phenomenon about love, capitalism, and the things they do to us. 'A feast for the literary senses' ANTON HUR, translator of Cursed Bunny 'A novel as slender as it is profound' LING LING HUANG, author of Natural Beauty 'A gutting, unforgettable ode' HENRY HOKE, author of Open Throat 'Cuts to the heart. Read at your peril' FRANCES CHA, author of If I Had Your Face

Bangkok, March 2018. The world looked on as millions of innocent lives were snuffed out in a matter of hours. Millions of men, women and children slaughtered without mercy, killed by a violent mob that attacked without reason, motive or warning. Tom Freeman saw the aftermath. He reported on the tragedy and looked into the eyes of the sole survivor, and what he saw looking back sent him running home to the United States. Back to safety. Back to a place where the world makes sense, and the putrid stink of the dead doesn't haunt his nightmares. He didn't run quickly enough. They're coming. Remain indoors... Gather supplies... Find a weapon... They're here. HUNGER is the opening book of the terrifying post-apocalyptic Last Man Standing series.

Bangkok, March 2018. The world looked on as millions of innocent lives were snuffed out in a matter of hours. Millions of men, women and children slaughtered without mercy, killed by a violent mob that attacked without reason, motive or warning. Tom Freeman saw the aftermath. He reported on the tragedy and looked into the eyes of the sole survivor, and what he saw looking back sent him running home to the United States. Back to safety. Back to a place where the world makes sense, and the putrid stink of the dead doesn't haunt his nightmares. He didn't run quickly enough. They're coming. Remain indoors... Gather supplies... Find a weapon... They're here. HUNGER is the opening book of the terrifying post-apocalyptic Last Man Standing series.

In Knut Hamsun's timeless classic Hunger, follow the haunting journey of an unnamed protagonist through the streets of 19th-century Oslo. As he grapples with poverty, isolation, and existential turmoil, his relentless hunger becomes a metaphor for the human condition itself. A mesmerizing exploration of the psyche's darkest depths.

In Knut Hamsun's timeless classic Hunger , follow the haunting journey of an unnamed protagonist through the streets of 19th-century Oslo. As he grapples with poverty, isolation, and existential turmoil, his relentless hunger becomes a metaphor for the human condition itself. A mesmerizing exploration of the psyche's darkest depths.

'I ate and ate and ate in the hopes that if I made myself big, my body would be safe. I buried the girl I was because she ran into all kinds of trouble. I tried to erase every memory of her, but she is still there, somewhere. . . . I was trapped in my body, one that I barely recognized or understood, but at least I was safe.' New York Times bestselling author Roxane Gay has written with intimacy and sensitivity about food and bodies, using her own emotional and psychological struggles as a means of exploring our shared anxieties over pleasure, consumption, appearance, and health. As a woman who describes her own body as "wildly undisciplined," Roxane understands the tension between desire and denial, between self-comfort and self-care. In Hunger, she casts an insightful and critical eye on her childhood, teens, and twenties-including the devastating act of violence that acted as a turning point in her young life-and brings readers into the present and the realities, pains, and joys of her daily life. With the bracing candor, vulnerability, and authority that have made her one of the most admired voices of her generation, Roxane explores what it means to be overweight in a time when the bigger you are, the less you are seen. Hunger is a deeply personal memoir from one of our finest writers, and tells a story that hasn't yet been told but needs to be.

'I ate and ate and ate in the hopes that if I made myself big, my body would be safe. I buried the girl I was because she ran into all kinds of trouble. I tried to erase every memory of her, but she is still there, somewhere. . . . I was trapped in my body, one that I barely recognized or understood, but at least I was safe.' New York Times bestselling author Roxane Gay has written with intimacy and sensitivity about food and bodies, using her own emotional and psychological struggles as a means of exploring our shared anxieties over pleasure, consumption, appearance, and health. As a woman who describes her own body as "wildly undisciplined," Roxane understands the tension between desire and denial, between self-comfort and self-care. In Hunger, she casts an insightful and critical eye on her childhood, teens, and twenties-including the devastating act of violence that acted as a turning point in her young life-and brings readers into the present and the realities, pains, and joys of her daily life. With the bracing candor, vulnerability, and authority that have made her one of the most admired voices of her generation, Roxane explores what it means to be overweight in a time when the bigger you are, the less you are seen. Hunger is a deeply personal memoir from one of our finest writers, and tells a story that hasn't yet been told but needs to be.

THE RECORD-BREAKING KOREAN DARK-ROMANCE SENSATION When hunger consumes you, what can be left of morality? HALF A MILLION COPIES SOLD ACROSS 10 LANGUAGES 'An instant cult classic. You have to read it' HARPER'S BAZAAR 'If Parasite takes a wide angle, Hunger uses a tight shot' ARTREVIEW 'Ambitious... A compelling read' ESQUIRE 'An instant cult classic' CRIMEREADS I could go to the police and confess. I could visit the priest and confess. I ate a person. Is that a sin? On an ordinary afternoon, a woman finds her soulmate dead in the street. She cradles the body to her chest and carries it home, where she disinfects every inch before beginning her macabre task. As the man witnesses his own interment from beyond, their two voices - living and dead - tell of a country where the rich feast and the poor starve. But this woman is no longer willing to bow before law, money, or God. A decade in the making, Hunger is a psychologically and philosophically thrilling cult phenomenon about love, capitalism, and the things they do to us. 'A feast for the literary senses' ANTON HUR, translator of Cursed Bunny 'A novel as slender as it is profound' LING LING HUANG, author of Natural Beauty 'A gutting, unforgettable ode' HENRY HOKE, author of Open Throat 'Cuts to the heart. Read at your peril' FRANCES CHA, author of If I Had Your Face

THE RECORD-BREAKING KOREAN DARK-ROMANCE SENSATION When hunger consumes you, what can be left of morality? HALF A MILLION COPIES SOLD ACROSS 10 LANGUAGES 'An instant cult classic. You have to read it' HARPER'S BAZAAR 'If Parasite takes a wide angle, Hunger uses a tight shot' ARTREVIEW 'Ambitious... A compelling read' ESQUIRE 'An instant cult classic' CRIMEREADS I could go to the police and confess. I could visit the priest and confess. I ate a person. Is that a sin? On an ordinary afternoon, a woman finds her soulmate dead in the street. She cradles the body to her chest and carries it home, where she disinfects every inch before beginning her macabre task. As the man witnesses his own interment from beyond, their two voices - living and dead - tell of a country where the rich feast and the poor starve. But this woman is no longer willing to bow before law, money, or God. A decade in the making, Hunger is a psychologically and philosophically thrilling cult phenomenon about love, capitalism, and the things they do to us. 'A feast for the literary senses' ANTON HUR, translator of Cursed Bunny 'A novel as slender as it is profound' LING LING HUANG, author of Natural Beauty 'A gutting, unforgettable ode' HENRY HOKE, author of Open Throat 'Cuts to the heart. Read at your peril' FRANCES CHA, author of If I Had Your Face

THE RECORD-BREAKING KOREAN DARK-ROMANCE SENSATION When hunger consumes you, what can be left of morality? HALF A MILLION COPIES SOLD ACROSS 10 LANGUAGES 'An instant cult classic. You have to read it' HARPER'S BAZAAR 'If Parasite takes a wide angle, Hunger uses a tight shot' ARTREVIEW 'Ambitious... A compelling read' ESQUIRE 'An instant cult classic' CRIMEREADS I could go to the police and confess. I could visit the priest and confess. I ate a person. Is that a sin? On an ordinary afternoon, a woman finds her soulmate dead in the street. She cradles the body to her chest and carries it home, where she disinfects every inch before beginning her macabre task. As the man witnesses his own interment from beyond, their two voices - living and dead - tell of a country where the rich feast and the poor starve. But this woman is no longer willing to bow before law, money, or God. A decade in the making, Hunger is a psychologically and philosophically thrilling cult phenomenon about love, capitalism, and the things they do to us. 'A feast for the literary senses' ANTON HUR, translator of Cursed Bunny 'A novel as slender as it is profound' LING LING HUANG, author of Natural Beauty 'A gutting, unforgettable ode' HENRY HOKE, author of Open Throat 'Cuts to the heart. Read at your peril' FRANCES CHA, author of If I Had Your Face

THE RECORD-BREAKING KOREAN DARK-ROMANCE SENSATION When hunger consumes you, what can be left of morality? HALF A MILLION COPIES SOLD ACROSS 10 LANGUAGES 'An instant cult classic. You have to read it' HARPER'S BAZAAR 'If Parasite takes a wide angle, Hunger uses a tight shot' ARTREVIEW 'Ambitious... A compelling read' ESQUIRE 'An instant cult classic' CRIMEREADS I could go to the police and confess. I could visit the priest and confess. I ate a person. Is that a sin? On an ordinary afternoon, a woman finds her soulmate dead in the street. She cradles the body to her chest and carries it home, where she disinfects every inch before beginning her macabre task. As the man witnesses his own interment from beyond, their two voices - living and dead - tell of a country where the rich feast and the poor starve. But this woman is no longer willing to bow before law, money, or God. A decade in the making, Hunger is a psychologically and philosophically thrilling cult phenomenon about love, capitalism, and the things they do to us. 'A feast for the literary senses' ANTON HUR, translator of Cursed Bunny 'A novel as slender as it is profound' LING LING HUANG, author of Natural Beauty 'A gutting, unforgettable ode' HENRY HOKE, author of Open Throat 'Cuts to the heart. Read at your peril' FRANCES CHA, author of If I Had Your Face