Sult [Hunger]

HAMSUN, Knut

Published by P.G. Philipsens Forlag, København [Copenhagen], 1890

About this Item

8vo. [4], 333, [1] pp. Contemporary half sheep and marbled boards; binding rubbed, early ownership signature to title-page, toned First edition of this highly influential semi-autobiographical novel about a humiliated and impoverished writer in Oslo. A precursor to so much of the literature of alienation and consciousness of the 20th century. In his introduction to a 1967 edition of Hunger Isaac Bashevis Singer wrote "The whole modern school of fiction in the twentieth century stems from Hamsun." Hamsun won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1920. Seller Inventory # 100597

Bibliographic Details

Title: Sult [Hunger]

Publisher: P.G. Philipsens Forlag, København [Copenhagen]

Publication Date: 1890

Binding: Hardcover

Edition: First edition.