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Printed in the United States of America  \nFirst published in 1890 by Gyldendal Norsk Forlag, Norway, as Sult Revised edition, 1998  \nFor Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data please contact publisher  \nINTRODUCTION  \nTHEART OF HUNGER  \nWhat is important, it seems to me, is not so much to defend a culture whose existence has never kept a man from going hungry, as to extract, from what is called culture, ideas whose compelling force is identical with that of hunger.  \n--Antonin Artaud  \nA young man comes to a city. He has no name, no home, no work: he has come to the city to write. He writes. Or, more exactly, he does not write. He starves to the point of death.  \nThe city is Christiania (Oslo); the year is 1890. The young man wanders through the streets: the city is a labyrinth of hunger, and all his days are the same. He writes unsolicited articles for a local paper. He worries about his rent, his disintegrating clothes, the difficulty of finding his next meal. He suffers. He nearly goes mad. He is never more than one step from collapse.  \nStill, he writes. Now and then he manages to sell an article, to find a temporary reprieve from his misery. But he is too weak to write steadily and can rarely finish the pieces he has begun. Among his abortive works are an essay entitled \"Crimes of the Future,\" a philosophical tract on the freedom of the will, an allegory about a bookstore fire (the books are brains), and a play set in the Middle Ages, The Sign of the Cross. The process is inescapable: he must eat in order to write. But if he does not write, he will not eat. And if he cannot eat, he cannot write. He cannot write.  \nHe writes. He does not write. He wanders through the streets ofthe city. He talks to himself in public. He frightens people away from him. When, by chance, he comes into some money, he gives it away. He is evicted from his room. He eats, and then throws everything up. At one point, he has a brief  \nflirtation with a girl, but nothing conies ofit except humiliation. He hungers. He curses the world. He does not die. In the end, for no apparent reason, he signs on board a ship and leaves the city.  \nThese are the bare bones of Knut Hamsun's first novel, Hunger. It is a work devoid of plot, action, and--but for the narrator--character. By nineteenth-century standards, it is a work in which nothing happens. The radical subjectivity of the narrator effectively eliminates the basic concerns of the traditional novel. Similar to the hero's plan to make an \"invisible detour\" when he came to the problem of space and time in one of his essays, Hamsun manages to dispense with historical time, the basic organizing principle of nineteenth-century fiction. He gives us an account only of the hero's worst struggles with hunger. Other, less difficult times, in which his hunger has been appeased--even though they might last as long asa week--are passed off in one or two sentences. Historical time is obliterated in favor of inner duration. With only an arbitrary beginning and an arbitrary ending, the novel faithfully records the vagaries of the narrator's mind, following each thought from its mysterious inception through all its meanderings, until it dissipates and the next thought begins. What happens is allowed to happen.  \nThis novel cannot even claim to have a redeeming social value. Although Hunger puts us in the jaws of misery, it offers no analysis of that misery, contains no call to political action. Hamsun, who turned fascist in ","cbCainJdPzGDVPQA","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCainJdPzGDVPQA","pdf",648926,173,"English","# Introduction\n## The art of hunger\n## The plotless struggle with starvation\n## Inner duration and radical subjectivity\n## Social value and moral distance","[{\"question\":\"What is the basic setup of Hunger?\",\"answer\":\"A nameless young man comes to Christiania (Oslo) to write in 1890. He cannot write, starves toward death, and his daily life becomes a labyrinth of hunger.\"},{\"question\":\"How does the novel’s structure differ from traditional nineteenth-century fiction?\",\"answer\":\"The book is described as devoid of plot, action, and character beyond the narrator. 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