Hunger, 9780192862846
Paperback
Desperate writer starves in a city that devours its dreamers.

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  • Paperback

    224 pages

  • Release Date

    25 October 2023

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Summary

‘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…

Book Details

ISBN-13:9780192862846
ISBN-10:0192862847
Author:Tore Rem, Terence Cave, Knut Hamsun
Publisher:Oxford University Press
Imprint:Oxford University Press
Format:Paperback
Number of Pages:224
Release Date:25 October 2023
Weight:160g
Dimensions:198mm x 130mm x 11mm
Series:Oxford World's Classics
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Critics Review

This is a deserving classic that needs to be analyzed closely by a clear and full mind. * Pennsylvania Literary Journal *This is a deserving classic that needs to be analyzed closely by a clear and full mind. * Pennsylvania Literary Journal *

About The Author

Tore Rem

Tore Rem is Professor of Literatures in English at the University of Oslo and Director of the interdisciplinary initiative UiO:Democracy. He is an academic and a non-fiction writer and has published widely on Scandinavian and British literature. His Knut Hamsun: Reisen til Hitler (‘The Journey to Hitler’) came out in Norwegian in 2014 and has been translated into several languages. He is general editor of the Penguin Classics edition of Henrik Ibsen, and has, together with Narve Fulsås, published the monograph Ibsen, Scandinavia and the Making of a World Drama (2018) and edited Ibsen in Context (2021).

Terence Cave CBE FBA is Emeritus Professor of French Literature at the University of Oxford and Emeritus Fellow of St John’s College, Oxford. Known primarily for his contributions to French Renaissance studies (The Cornucopian Text, 1979; Pré-histoires I and II, 1999 and 2001), he has also written on Aristotelian poetics (Recognitions, 1988) and on the relations between literature and music (Mignon’s Afterlives, 2011). In 2009, he won the Balzan Prize for literature since 1500; he subsequently directed the Balzan project ‘Literature as an object of knowledge’, which explored cognitive approaches to literature. His books Thinking with Literature (2016), Reading Beyond the Code (jointly edited with Deirdre Wilson; 2018), and Live Artefacts (2022) are among the outcomes of this project. He has also translated Mme de Lafayette’s The Princesse de Clèves for Oxford World’s Classics.

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