Hunger - Couverture souple

Hamsun, Knut

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1782117121 ISBN 13 : 9781782117124

Editeur : Canongate Canons, 2016

Synopsis

INTRODUCTION BY JO NESBØ
AFTERWORD BY PAUL AUSTER

Nineteenth-century Kristiania is an unforgiving place, and work is thin on the ground. Roaming the streets of Norway's capital, a penniless young writer searches for inspiration whilst trying desperately to make ends meet. Driven to extraordinary lengths, sleeping under the stars with his stomach growling, the writer's behaviour becomes increasingly irrational and his world spirals into chaos.

Hunger was Knut Hamsun's first novel and earned him the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1920. A disturbing and darkly humorous masterpiece of existential fiction, Hunger anticipated and influenced some of the twentieth century's most acclaimed writers including Camus, Kafka and Fante.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Knut Hamsun was born in Norway in 1859. Hunger was his first novel. He went on to write many works of fiction, including Mysteries, Pan and Victoria. He died in 1952, and since then a growing number of readers have been drawn to his work for its extraordinary qualities of insight and imagination.

À propos de la quatrième de couverture

The Nobel Prize-winning author Knut Hamsun's Hunger, an influential work of twentieth-century modern literature, is now a Canon

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Canongate Canons
• Date d'édition: 2016
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1782117121
• ISBN 13: 9781782117124
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 288
• Coordonnées du fabricant: Canongate Books; info@canongate.co.uk; ; 14 High Street; Edinburgh; EH1 1TE; Royaume-Uni
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