Hunger

by Knut Hamsun Narrated by Gunnar Cauthery

Overview

Verging on death, a starving, destitute writer navigates the cold and indifferent city of Kristiania in search of his next meal. Frenzied and fevered, he chews on stale bread, devours scraps of wood and bites his own finger, sleeping under the stars in old, pungent blankets, until one day he is able to sell an article and buy some food - only for the cycle then to repeat itself... Knut Hamsun's first novel, Hunger won the author the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1920 and went on to influence the likes of Albert Camus, Franz Kafka, Charles Bukowski and Henry Miller. This recording uses the 1996 translation by Sverre Lyngstad, which is considered to be the definitive version in English.

Editorial Reviews

Detroit News James Goldwasser

After reading Hunger, one can easily understand why Hamsun was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature. Hunger should appeal to any reader who is interested in a masterpiece by one of this century's great novelists.

From the Publisher

By the Winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature

“Knut Hamsun’s writing is magical, his sentences are glowing, he could write about anything and make it alive.” —Karl Ove Knausgaard, The New York Times Book Review

 “The whole modern school of fiction in the twentieth century stems from Hamsun.” —Isaac Bashevis Singer

 “The classic novel of humiliation, even beyond Dostoyevsky . . . Lyngstad’s translation restores to the English-speaking reader one of the cold summits in modern prose literature.” —George Steiner

Herald

Disturbing and difficult as this nightmarish novel is, it is a work of imaginative brilliance that resonates in our own day

Rebecca West

Hamsun has the qualities that belong to the very great, a complete omniscience on human nature

London Review of Books

Hunger was published in 1890 and its power has not faded

Time Out

One of the most disturbing novels in existence

Observer

Hunger is the crux of Hamsun's claims to mastery. This is the classic novel of humiliation, even beyond Dostoevsky

Duncan McClean

Hunger is undoubtedly one of the most important novels of the modern age. At last it has found a translator capable of doing justice to its immense power and complexity: Lyngstad's deserves to become the standard English version

Times Literary Supplement

An excellent new translation . . . this Hunger deserves to be the standard English version

Product Details

BN ID:	2940173916204
Publisher:	Naxos Audiobooks
Publication date:	10/01/2019
Edition description:	Unabridged

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