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Wie kommt es, dass zwei, die füreinander bestimmt scheinen, sich verfehlen? Victoria und Johannes sind schon seit der Kindheit ineinander verliebt. Aber sie ist die Tochter des Grundbesitzers, er der Sohn des Müllers, und so stehen von Anfang an die Standesunterschiede zwischen ihnen. Johannes geht in die Stadt, studiert und wird Schriftsteller, Victoria dagegen muss einen anderen heiraten, einen mit Geld, denn ihr Vater hat finanzielle Sorgen

A true classic of modern literature that has been described as "one of the most disturbing novels in existence" (Time Out), Hunger is the story of a Norwegian artist who wanders the streets, struggling on the edge of starvation. As hunger overtakes him, he slides inexorably into paranoia and despair. The descent into madness is recounted by the unnamed narrator in increasingly urgent and disjointed prose, as he loses his grip on reality.

Arising from Hamsun's belief that literature ought to be about the mysterious workings of the human mind -- an attempt, he wrote, to...

The occasional income he gets from his writing is barely adequate to keep him alive, and between the bouts of hunger he hallucinates and imagines -- and sometimes engages in -- sensuality in all its forms. Food and sex and vivid creative daydreams, in combination with a peculiar personal pride, keep him on the fringes, apart from others. And yet, his need for...

HUNGER by Knut Hamsun...the novel that inspired some of the world's greatest writers.

"Hamsun taught me to write." ERNEST HEMINGWAY

"The whole modern school of fiction in the twentieth century stems from Hamsun." ISAAC BASHEVIS SINGER

"Please God, please Knut Hamsun, don't desert me now." JOHN FANTE, Dreams of Bunker Hill

"I told her that Knut Hamsun had been the world's greatest writer." CHARLES BUKOWSKI, Women