While he vainly tries to maintain an outer shell of respectability, his mental and physical decay are recounted in detail. Set in late 19th century Kristiania, the novel recounts the adventures of a starving young man whose sense of reality is giving way to a delusionary existence on the darker side of a modern metropolis. Written after Hamsun’s return from an ill-fated tour of America, Hunger is loosely based on the author’s own impoverished life before his breakthrough in 1890. Hunger portrays the irrationality of the human mind in an intriguing and sometimes humorous manner. The novel has been hailed as the literary opening of the 20th century and an outstanding example of modern, psychology-driven literature. Hunger is a novel by the Norwegian author Knut Hamsun and was published in 1890. Is 500 WPM Too Fast? Take Our Speed Reading Course To Keep Up! We’re going to speed read Hungerby Knut Hamsun at 500 words per minute (WPM) using. This is day #28 of the One Book, One Day challenge.
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