Arising from Hamsun's belief that literature ought to be about the mysterious workings of the human mind an attempt, he wrote, to describe "the whisper of the blood and the pleading of the bone marrow" Hunger is a landmark work that pointed the way toward a new kind of novel.
"The whole modern school of fiction in the twentieth century stems from Hamsun. They were all Hamsun's disciples: Thomas Mann and Arthur Schnitzler . . . and even such American writers are Fitzgerald and Hemingway." —Isaac Bashevis Singer
Arising from Hamsun's belief that literature ought to be about the mysterious workings of the human mind an attempt, he wrote, to describe "the whisper of the blood and the pleading of the bone marrow" Hunger is a landmark work that pointed the way toward a new kind of novel.
"The whole modern school of fiction in the twentieth century stems from Hamsun. They were all Hamsun's disciples: Thomas Mann and Arthur Schnitzler . . . and even such American writers are Fitzgerald and Hemingway." —Isaac Bashevis Singer
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Product Details
ISBN-13: | 9780374531102 |
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Publisher: | Farrar, Straus and Giroux |
Publication date: | 02/19/2008 |
Series: | FSG Classics |
Edition description: | First Edition |
Pages: | 272 |
Product dimensions: | 8.08(w) x 10.96(h) x 0.75(d) |