Nälkä by Knut Hamsun
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"Nälkä" by Knut Hamsun is a novel published in 1890. Set in late 19th-century Kristiania, it follows an unnamed starving young man wandering the streets as his mental and physical state deteriorates. While trying to maintain respectability, he descends into a delusionary existence, overwhelmed by hunger and his own self-destructive choices. This psychology-driven work explores the irrational workings of the human mind through a series of encounters, depicting the darker side of
modern urban life with both intensity and dark humor. (This is an automatically generated summary.)
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| Author | Hamsun, Knut, 1859-1952 |
|---|---|
| Translator | Kärkkäinen, Viki, 1883-1946 |
| Uniform Title | Sult. Finnish |
| Title | Nälkä |
| Note | Wikipedia page about this book: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hunger_(Hamsun_novel) Wikipedia page about this book: fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/N%C3%A4lk%C3%A4_(romaani) |
| Credits | Produced by Juhani Kärkkäinen and Tapio Riikonen |
| Reading Level | Reading ease score: 50.9 (10th to 12th grade). Somewhat difficult to read. |
| Language | Finnish |
| LoC Class | PT: Language and Literatures: Germanic, Scandinavian, and Icelandic literatures |
| Subject | Authors -- Fiction |
| Subject | Norway -- Fiction |
| Subject | Hunger -- Fiction |
| Subject | Starvation -- Fiction |
| Subject | Urban poor -- Fiction |
| Category | Text |
| eBook-No. | 53365 |
| Release Date | Oct 25, 2016 |
| Last Update | Oct 23, 2024 |
| Copyright | Public domain in the USA. |
| Downloads | 286 downloads in the last 30 days. |
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