In the late 19th century, a struggling writer wanders the streets of the city of Christiania, hungry and destitute, while clinging to dreams of greatness. I have seen many comparisons of Hunger to Crime and Punishment and I can see the similarities but where Dostoevsky’s book moved me immensely when I read it for the first time, Hunger left me as cold as a stone, and where I could feel Raskolnikov’s agony as if it were a living entity, I was mostly annoyed at Hamsun’s […]
“… it will never do for you to go and starve yourself to death.”
Hunger by Knut Hamsun
