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乇賵丕賷丞 賲賳 丕賱兀丿亘 丕賱賳乇賵賷噩賷 丨丕夭鬲 毓賱賶 噩丕卅夭丞 賳賵亘賱. 賯丿賲 賮賷賴丕 丕賱賲丐賱賮 氐賵乇丞 賱丨賷丕丞 丕賳爻丕賳 賴賵 兀丿賷亘 賲乇賴賮 丕賱兀丨丕爻賷爻 鬲鬲兀乇噩丨 丨賷丕鬲賴 亘賷賳 丕賱兀賲賱 丕賱乇丕賯丿 賵丕賱賷兀爻 賵丕賱丕丨亘丕胤 賵亘賷賳 丕賱丕爻鬲賯乇丕乇 丕賱賲鬲兀乇噩丨 賵丕賱鬲賳賯賱 賱鬲乇噩丨 亘丕賱賳賴丕賷丞 賰賮丞 丕賱賴噩乇丞 賵丕賱鬲乇丨丕賱 亘毓丿 丕賳 禺賷賲 丕賱噩賵毓 賵丕賱丕丨亘丕胤 毓賱賶 丨賷丕鬲賴.

240 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1890

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Knut Hamsun

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Novels of Norwegian writer Knut Hamsun (born Knud Pedersen), include Hunger (1890) and The Growth of the Soil (1917). He won the Nobel Prize for literature in 1920.

He insisted on the intricacies of the human mind as the main object of modern literature to describe the "whisper of the blood, and the pleading of the bone marrow." Hamsun pursued his literary program, debuting in 1890 with the psychological novel Hunger.

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March 6, 2012
I often catch myself staring, rather lovingly in fact, at my bookshelves. Each shelf is swelling nearly to the point of overflowing with books, each authors collection seemingly positioned at random - yet, somehow, the location of each work holds some secret form of order that is beyond even me. I'll caress each spine with my eyes, occasionally running a finger down it to feel a spark of retrospection and for a moment recall the times when I held a particular book during the course of absorbing it. I can often relate any major event in my life to the particular novel I was reading at the time, and vice versa, making my bookshelf an eternal, tangled web of my past. Perhaps this is why I never got into the electronic readers. I can understand their versatility and convenience, but there is a strange power felt while just holding a nice edition of a novel in your hands, especially after time has passed and you pick it back up just to feel its weight in your palms. Plus, I greatly enjoy scavenging through used book stores for old hardcovers and often traverse several stores before reading a novel I know I'll love just to be sure I have the edition that best suits me. One day I hope to have my own personal library; in my mind it looks much like the one from Beauty and the Beast a la Disney, but less cartoonish. Maybe it is an obsession, but literature fills a special place in my heart. It should, seeing as I owe a large sum of money back for furthering my education of it.

On the topic of obsession comes Hamsun's first novel, Hunger, published in 1890. As my eyes scanned each novel I had read in 2011, they stopped here and acknowledged this as my personal favorite novel I had read this past year. This book is a monumental achievement of psychological literature as it is a powerful examination of human consciousness. Hunger is a novel of a starving artist, meant in the most literal sense possible, who puts up with extreme hardship and hunger, suffering all for the pure sake of putting pen to paper. The reader is immersed in the nameless narrators consciousness, following him down the chilly streets of Christiana as he barely hangs on by a thread in pursuit of the next burst of genius to sell for small change in order to continue on. The reader is trapped in this unraveling mind, floating on his rantings and ravings that Hamsun details with eloquent precision, and watches as his moods shift and swing to and fro like a hinged door in a hellish hurricane.

I read this novel in a matter of two days, it is one that simply cannot be put down. I would set it aside and feel its pull begging me to transport myself back into the narrator and suffer his trials and tribulations with him. Although I read it perched on the side of a pool, my feet in the clear water and basking in the exquisit Michigan summer sun, I could not feel at ease as Hamsun projected the mania onto me. I felt much as the narrator felt, being drawn inside of him. He writes:
The dark had captured my brain and gave me not an
instant of peace. What if I myself became dissolved
into the dark, turned into it?


The novel moves in several parts, each taking place a few weeks after the previous and pitting the narrator in his most extreme moments of desperation. It will become quickly apparent that this narrator is no fool however, and is in fact quite brilliant. This brilliant mind weaves pages of lustrous prose and cutting insight to the world, and people, around him, yet we see him loose control and throw into a fit of anger and delirium and experience the occasional aberration of reality. It proposed the dilema, has he gone mad from hunger, or is he hungry because he has gone mad? Hamsun offers evidence to either side, yet leaves it up to you to draw conclusions. Hamsun intentionally conceives him out of contradictions, much like his hero Johan Nagel of his excellent sophomore novel Mysteries, showing him as brash but tender, kind yet callous, pathetic yet brave. He often comes into money but gives it all away to someone else while overcome with manic passions and seems to care little about his own lamentable conditions as if it were all some sort of game to him. He prays and speaks to God, trusting in his design, yet doubts his existence at the same time. This attention to the psychology of a frenzied, contradictory lead role has brought many comparions of Hamsun to and his character Raskolnikov from . This is an apt comparison, although I felt Hamsun's narrator and the Underground man from were more kindred spirits. This book could practically be a prequel to that novel of Dostoyevsky's.

This novel is one of Hamsun's most personal, as it draws heavily from his own life experiences. As Robert Bly's afterword describes, Hamsun spent most of his young life working hard labor for menial pay, and became very much an introvert from the lack of his peers whom he could converse about 'higher ideas' with. He spend much of this time hungry and exceedingly poor, and would go into fits of writing lofty incantations, yet, in the yellow morning, would see these pages as nothing but stanzas of gibberish and tear them up and toss the scraps into the street (if you caught the lifting of Ginsberg there, one thousand cool points are awarded to you. That's my favorite part). Perhaps Hamsun felt he was loosing grip on reality, much like his narrator. I read an essay of Hamsun once that said he was a wanderer, often moving to new places to get inspiration for novels and write in seclusion, and that he was highly popular with the female folk. The narrator seems an extension of Hamsun in this regard, as it is hinted that he is not a native of Chrisiana and has all across the map, and that even in his wretched state of malnutrition causing his ragged clothes to hang off him and his hair to fall out, he is still able to attract the affections of a local lady.

Hunger is not a novel you will ever forget. It sprouts deep roots within your heart and mind and will follow your thoughts wherever you go. If you are a first-time reader of the great Nobel laureate Knut Hamsun, this is a perfect introduction. Although I don't like to give such a one-sided depiction of a novel, this is one that I cannot find anything negative for to say. Upon completion, I declared that some day I will teach this novel, it is that good and there is enough material for countless discussions. This was my favorite novel that I read in 2011, and I hope you read it. It would be a damn shame not to.
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No job鈥� No money鈥� No sustenance鈥�
I leaned forward with my elbows on the windowsill and gazed at the sky. It promised to be a clear day. Autumn had arrived, that lovely, cool time of year when everything turns color and dies. The streets had already begun to get noisy, tempting me to go out. This empty room, where the floor rocked up and down at every step I took, was like a horrible, broken-down coffin.

His hunger isn鈥檛 just physical鈥� His hunger is also psychic鈥� But there is a star that beckons him right through all the penury and hardships鈥� There is a high goal鈥� There are his ambitions鈥� There are his dreams鈥� There are his ideals鈥� He is full of fantasies鈥�
Suddenly one or two good sentences occur to me, suitable for a sketch or story, nice linguistic flukes the likes of which I had never experienced before. I lie there repeating these words to myself and find that they are excellent. Presently they鈥檙e joined by others, I鈥檓 at once wide-awake, sit up and grab paper and pencil from the table behind my bed. It was as though a vein had burst inside me 鈥� one word follows another, they connect with one another and turn into situations; scenes pile on top of other scenes, actions and dialogue well up in my brain, and a wonderful sense of pleasure takes hold of me. I write as if possessed, filling one page after another without a moment鈥檚 pause. My thoughts strike me so suddenly and continue to pour out so abundantly that I lose a lot of minor details I鈥檓 not able to write down fast enough, though I am working at full blast. They continue to crowd in on me, I am full of my subject, and every word I write is put in my mouth.

Seek, and ye shall find; knock, and it shall be opened unto you鈥�
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September 11, 2021
(Book 813 from 1001 books) - Sult = Hunger, Knut Hamsun

Hunger is a novel by the Norwegian author Knut Hamsun published in 1890. Parts of it had been published anonymously in the Danish magazine "Ny Jord" in 1888.

The novel has been hailed as the literary opening of the 20th century and an outstanding example of modern, psychology-driven literature. Hunger portrays the irrationality of the human mind in an intriguing and sometimes humorous manner.

Written after Hamsun's return from an ill-fated tour of America, Hunger is loosely based on the author's own impoverished life before his breakthrough in 1890.

Set in late 19th-century Kristiania (now Oslo), the novel recounts the adventures of a starving young man whose sense of reality is giving way to a delusionary existence on the darker side of a modern metropolis.

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September 8, 2017
螆谓伪 伪蠁蠈蟻畏蟿慰 伪蟻喂蟽蟿慰蠉蟻纬畏渭伪. 螆谓伪 尾喂尾位委慰 蟺慰蠀 蟽蔚 蟺慰谓维蔚喂 魏伪喂 蟽蔚 胃位委尾蔚喂 尾伪胃喂维 魏伪喂 伪蟺蔚纬谓蠅蟽渭苇谓伪. 危蟺伪蟻伪魏蟿喂魏维 伪谓胃蟻蠋蟺喂谓慰 魏伪喂 蟽蠀纬魏喂谓畏蟿喂魏维 蟿蟻慰渭伪魏蟿喂魏蠈. 螒蠀蟿萎 畏 喂蟽蟿慰蟻喂伪 渭蔚 蟺位萎纬蠅蟽蔚 蠄蠀蠂喂魏维 魏伪喂 蟽蠅渭伪蟿喂魏维-苇谓喂蠅蟽伪 谓伪 蟺慰谓维蠅 苇谓蟿慰谓伪 蟽蟿慰 蟽蟿慰渭维蠂喂 伪蟺慰 伪谓伪蟺蠈蠁蔚蠀魏蟿畏 蟺蔚委谓伪 魏伪喂 伪蟺蔚位蟺喂蟽委伪.
韦蟻慰渭伪魏蟿喂魏萎 伪位位畏位蔚蟺委未蟻伪蟽畏 蟽蠅渭伪蟿喂魏萎 魏伪喂 蟺谓蔚蠀渭伪蟿喂魏萎.
螣位伪 蟿伪 渭蠀蟽蟿萎蟻喂伪 蟿慰蠀 渭蠀伪位慰蠉 魏伪喂 蟿畏蟼 蠄蠀蠂萎蟼 蟽蔚 苇谓伪 蔚尉伪胃位喂蠅渭苇谓慰 伪谓蟿蟻喂魏蠈 魏慰蟻渭委 蟺慰蠀 蟺蔚喂谓维蔚喂 伪位位维 蟺慰蟿蔚 未蔚谓 蟺伪蠉蔚喂 谓伪 蔚喂谓伪喂 蟺慰谓蠈蠄蠀蠂慰蟼, 蔚蠀纬蔚谓喂魏蠈蟼,蟿委渭喂慰蟼 魏伪喂 蠀蟺蔚蟻萎蠁伪谓慰蟼 尉蔚蟺蔚蟻谓蠋谓蟿伪蟼 蟿伪 蠈蟻喂伪 蟿畏蟼 蠀蟺蔚蟻尾慰位萎蟼.

螣 萎蟻蠅伪蟼 渭伪蟼 蔚喂谓伪喂 苇谓伪蟼 未喂伪谓慰慰蠉渭蔚谓慰蟼 蠁蟿蠅蠂蠈蟼 魏伪喂 伪谓蠋谓蠀渭慰蟼 伪谓胃蟻蠅蟺维魏慰蟼 蟺慰蠀 蟺蔚蟻喂蠁苇蟻蔚蟿伪喂 蟽蔚 未喂伪蠁慰蟻伪 蟽畏渭蔚委伪 蟿畏蟼 蟺蠈位畏蟼 味蠋谓蟿伪蟼 蟽蔚 蠁蟿蠅蠂喂魏维 魏伪喂 蔚尉伪胃位喂蠅渭苇谓伪 蔚谓慰喂魏喂伪味蠈渭蔚谓伪 未蠅渭维蟿喂伪 魏伪喂 纬蟻伪蠁慰谓蟿伪蟼 维蟻胃蟻伪 萎 未喂畏纬萎渭伪蟿伪 渭蔚 蟽魏慰蟺蠈 谓伪 蟿伪 蔚魏未蠋蟽蔚喂 蟽蔚 魏维蟺慰喂伪 蟿慰蟺喂魏萎 蔚蠁畏渭蔚蟻委未伪 魏伪喂 谓伪 魏蔚蟻未委蟽蔚喂 蟿伪 蔚位维蠂喂蟽蟿伪 蠂蟻萎渭伪蟿伪 蟺慰蠀 蟿慰蠀 蠂蟻蔚喂维味慰谓蟿伪喂 纬喂伪 谓伪 蔚蟺喂尾喂蠋蟽蔚喂.

芦螔蟻委蟽魏慰渭伪喂 位慰喂蟺蠈谓 蟿蠋蟻伪 蟽蔚 苇谓伪 蟺慰位蠉 蟽畏渭伪谓蟿喂魏蠈 蟽畏渭蔚委慰 蟿畏蟼 伪位位畏纬慰蟻委伪蟼, 蔚魏蔚委谓慰 蟿畏蟼 蟺蠀蟻魏伪纬喂维蟼 蟽蔚 苇谓伪 尾喂尾位喂慰蟺蠅位蔚委慰鈥ξ壩肝滴晃� 伪魏蟻喂尾蠋蟼 谓伪 蔚魏蠁蟻维蟽蠅 渭蔚 尾伪胃蠀蟽蟿蠈蠂伪蟽蟿慰 蟿蟻蠈蟺慰 蟿畏谓 喂未苇伪 蟺蠅蟼 未蔚谓 萎蟿伪谓 尾喂尾位委伪 伪蠀蟿维 蟺慰蠀 魏伪委纬慰谓蟿伪谓 伪位位维 萎蟿伪谓 渭蠀伪位维, 伪谓胃蟻蠋蟺喂谓伪 渭蠀伪位维, 魏伪喂 萎胃蔚位伪 谓伪 蟺蔚蟻喂纬蟻维蠄蠅 渭喂伪 蟺蟻伪纬渭伪蟿喂魏萎 螡蠉蠂蟿伪 螒纬委慰蠀 螔伪蟻胃慰位慰渭伪委慰蠀 渭蔚 伪蠀蟿蠈 蟿慰 魏维蠄喂渭慰 蟿蠅谓 渭蠀伪位蠋谓禄.

螌渭蠅蟼 慰位伪 苇蟻蠂慰谓蟿伪喂 伪谓维蟺慰未伪. 韦伪 蟺维谓蟿伪 蟽蠀谓慰渭蠅蟿慰蠉谓 蔚谓伪谓蟿委慰谓 伪蠀蟿萎蟼 蟿畏蟼 蟿蟻蠀蠁蔚蟻萎蟼 蠄蠀蠂萎蟼 蟺慰蠀 蟺伪位蔚蠉蔚喂 渭蔚 蠈位慰 蟿慰蠀 蟿慰 蔚喂谓伪喂,渭蔚 渭喂伪 蟺蔚喂蟽渭伪蟿喂魏萎 伪魏伪蟿伪谓委魏畏蟿畏 蔚蟺喂胃蠀渭委伪 谓伪 味萎蟽蔚喂 伪尉喂慰蟺蟻蔚蟺蠋蟼 -伪蠀蟿蠈 渭蠈谓慰 味畏蟿维蔚喂-魏伪喂 谓伪 未蠋蟽蔚喂 渭伪胃萎渭伪蟿伪 伪谓胃蟻蠅蟺喂维蟼 魏伪喂 蟽蠀渭蟺蠈谓喂伪蟼 蟽蔚 渭喂伪 伪蟺伪尉喂蠅渭苇谓畏 魏慰喂谓蠅谓委伪.
螆蟿蟽喂,渭蔚蟿伪 伪蟺慰 魏维胃蔚 伪蟺慰蟿蠀蠂委伪, 魏维胃蔚 蔚喂蟻蠅谓蔚委伪 蟿畏蟼 蟿蠉蠂畏蟼 蟺慰蠀 蟿慰谓 苇蠂蔚喂 蟽畏渭伪未苇蠄蔚喂,魏维胃蔚 伪蟺慰纬慰萎蟿蔚蠀蟽畏 蟺慰蠀 蟿慰谓 蠂蟿蠀蟺维蔚喂 伪谓蔚位苇畏蟿伪 魏伪喂 蟿慰蠀 蟽蟺伪蟻维味蔚喂 魏蠀蟻喂慰位蔚魏蟿喂魏维 蟿慰 蟽蠋渭伪 伪位位伪 魏蠀蟻委蠅蟼 蟿畏谓 伪胃蠅蠈蟿畏蟿伪 魏伪喂 蟿畏谓 伪纬谓萎 蟿慰蠀 蟺蔚蟻畏蠁维谓蔚喂伪, 蔚蟺喂蟽蟿蟻苇蠁蔚喂 蠂慰蟻蟿伪蟽渭苇谓慰蟼 伪蟺慰纬慰萎蟿蔚蠀蟽畏,蔚尉维谓蟿位畏蟽畏 魏伪喂 蟺蔚委谓伪 蟽蟿慰 蟺伪纬蠅渭苇谓慰 魏伪喂 蟽魏慰蟿蔚喂谓蠈 魏伪蟿维位蠀渭伪 蟿慰蠀.
螌蟿伪谓 慰蟻喂伪魏维 蟺伪位蔚蠉蔚喂 渭蔚蟿伪尉蠉 蠁胃慰蟻维蟼 魏伪喂 伪蠁胃伪蟻蟽委伪蟼, 渭蔚 伪喂蠂渭畏蟻蠈 蠂喂慰蠉渭慰蟻 魏伪喂 蟽蠀纬魏喂谓畏蟿喂魏蠈 伪蠀蟿慰蟽伪蟻魏伪蟽渭蠈 伪谓伪魏伪位蠉蟺蟿蔚喂 渭喂伪 谓蠈蟿伪 伪喂蟽喂慰未慰尉委伪蟼 魏伪喂 蔚位蟺委未伪蟼 魏伪喂 蟿蠈蟿蔚 谓喂蠋胃蔚喂 蔚蠀纬谓蠋渭蠅谓,慰谓蔚喂蟻蔚蠉蔚蟿伪喂, 渭蔚蟿伪谓喂蠋谓蔚喂 蟺慰蠀 魏伪蟿伪蟻维蟽蟿畏魏蔚 蟿畏谓 蔚纬魏伪蟿维位蔚喂蠄畏 蟿慰蠀 伪蟺慰 螛蔚蠈 魏伪喂 伪谓胃蟻蠋蟺慰蠀蟼 魏伪喂 蟽蠀谓蔚蠂委味蔚喂 蟿慰谓 伪纬蠋谓伪 蟿慰蠀 位喂渭慰蠉 蔚谓维谓蟿喂伪 蟽蟿畏谓 伪谓胃蟻蠋蟺喂谓畏 蠄蠀蠂萎 魏伪喂 蠀蟺蠈蟽蟿伪蟽畏.

芦韦慰 纬苇位喂慰 渭慰蠀 萎蟿伪谓 蟽喂蠅蟺畏位蠈 魏伪喂 蠀蟽蟿蔚蟻喂魏蠈, 苇谓伪 尾伪胃蠉 纬苇位喂慰 蟽伪谓 位蠀纬渭蠈蟼鈥β�.

芦危蠀谓蔚委未畏蟽畏, 蔚委蟺蔚蟼;蠈蠂喂 尾位伪魏蔚委蔚蟼 蟿蠋蟻伪.蔚委蟽伪喂 蟺慰位蠉 蠁蟿蠅蠂蠈蟼 纬喂伪 谓伪 苇蠂蔚喂蟼 蟽蠀谓蔚委未畏蟽畏禄.


螖喂伪尾维蟽蟿蔚 蟿慰 !!!
螝伪位萎 伪谓维纬谓蠅蟽畏.
螤慰位位慰蠉蟼 伪蟽蟺伪蟽渭慰蠉蟼.
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April 2, 2012


Discombobulated鈥谤别苍锄颈别诲鈥�distracted鈥ambling鈥nd oh so BRILLIANT.

Knut Hamsun's fevered, stream of consciousness classic is something special. Unwaveringly "in the now," this novel's every word felt as if it had fallen from the narrator's mind, unfiltered, unrestrained, and unreflected upon. Wow, was this something. The unnamed narrator, with his exaggerated and unjustified notions of his own superiority reminded me a lot of Raskolnikov from , while the disjointed style and unreliable perspective was a subtle cross between Faulkner's The Sound and the Fury and Salinger's Catcher in the Rye. Despite its commonalities with other great works, Hunger, through its unrelenting, unapologetic look at a life, unraveling due to poverty and physical decay, is a singular work all its own.

I was enthralled.

In brief, the story follows the wanderings of a starving writer as he navigates the streets the City of Kristiania (aka Oslo, Norway). He is destitute and his body (and mental faculties) are failing from lack of food. Yet, despite having no employment, no lodging (much of the time), no food (most of the time), and absolutely no money, our protagonist feels himself vastly superior to all those with whom he mingles. His intellect and his skills as a writer earmark him for greatness, and it is only the whims of fate and the enmity of God that have held him back from his rightful place. Thus, a talented, but overly self-entitled man struggles with his lack of success and his want of the necessities of life as he slowly descends into malnutrition-induced madness.

The above doesn't even scratch the surface of this story, but it gives you a decent (hopefully) roadmap of the tale to follow. And what a tale it is.

Not a fictional biography or a period piece, but an amazingly authentic (or so it felt) psychological portrait of the suffering artist. The story of genius, twisted by delusion and crippled by hunger and depravation. It is also a tale of massive, unrestrained Ego, because, like Raskolnikov before him, most of what befalls our main character is the result of his own irrational refusal to acknowledge his lack of superiority. For example, at one point, when hunger has started to transform his visage into something heretofore unrecognized, our protagonist responds to his predicament as follows:
The devil only knew why you had to be turned into a veritable freak just because of hunger! I experienced rage once more, its final flare-up, a spasm鈥ere I was, with a head on my shoulders without its equal in the whole country, and with a pair of fists, by golly, that could grind the town porter to fine dust, and yet I was turning into a freak from hunger, right here in the city of Kristiania!
Yet the idea of begging, or even asking, for help is anathema to him. He needs no help, he will accept no charity.

Well, I hope that ego tastes yummy, my good man, because that self importance is going to be a costly meal.

Even when his circumstances become so dire that he begins to lie, cheat and steal to obtain nourishment and lodging, our man still manages to hold himself out as something singular for not having perpetrated worse actions.
Rotten Patches were beginning to appear in my inner being, black spongy growths that were spreading more and more. And God sat in his heaven keeping a watchful eye on me, making sure that my destruction took place according to all the rules of the game, slowly and steadily, with no letup. But in the pit of hell the devils were raising their hackles in fury because it was taking me such a long time to commit a cardinal sin, an unforgivable sin for which God in his righteousness had to cast me down.
God plotting against him, Satan awed by his retraint in the face of such trials, and the world too stupid to recognize his worth. This psychological profile is fascinating stuff.

As maudlin and depressing as the subject matter sounds, Hamsun, to his enormous credit, keeps the story from ever succumbing to bleakness. Part of this is because our narrator remains optimistic and convinced that his plight will resolve itself to his advantage, and part of this is because our narrator will not admit to weakness even inside his own head. Thus we get casual statements like,My hunger was getting rather bad, I felt faint and threw up a bit here and there on the sly. Full stop鈥pen mouth鈥ulge eyes. When I read that I was stunned. For the hunger-caused deterioration to have reached the point where our narrator was constantly vomiting, and for him to describe it in such a matter of fact tone, completely free of color commentary. That struck me and actually increased the impact of the protagonist's situation on me.

Well done, Mr. Hamsun.

Surprisingly, the story also has many moments of genuine humor. Our main character is so maddened by his privation that he sees conspiracies and persecutions wherever he goes, many of which are explained in hyperbole that comes across as very amusing. Only the combined effort of the world and the heavenly host are able to effectively work to thwart our man's achieving recognition (and money) for his work. Have I mentioned Raskolnikov yet?

I really enjoyed myself reading this. It's not a light read. It requires effort from the reader to maintain connection to the narrative, that jumps from one thought to the next like an amorous rabbit on ginseng, but it's worth it. A wonderfully prosed, engrossing anatomy of a talented, but reality-impaired individual spinning out of control as a result of the debilitating hunger and the concomitant mental and physical deterioration that accompanies it. The introduction to the Penguin edition I read stated that this book is considered the birth of 20th century literature (despite being published in 1890). I can see why.

Finally, I want to give a big, heartfelt thank you to , without whom I probably would not have come across this amazing story. I owe you one.

4.0 to 4.5 stars. HIGHEST POSSIBLE RECOMMENDATION!.
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August 8, 2023
(3, 5) Prozatorul L. C. mi-a vorbit cel dint卯i despre romanul lui Hamsun. Mi-a descris imaginea care ajunsese s膬-i dea co葯maruri: s膬 stai pe treptele une biserici, s膬 mori de foame, s膬 tremuri, s膬 delirezi din pricina sl膬biciunii, 葯i nimeni s膬 nu-葲i 卯ntind膬 m膬car o coaj膬 de p卯ine, nimeni-nimeni. Asta 卯nseamn膬 o lume din care Dumnezeu s-a retras.

Personajul lui K. H. mi-a adus aminte, imediat, de omul din subteran膬 al lui Dostoievski. Acela葯i amestec de umilin葲膬 葯i trufie, de exaltare 葯i depresie, de resemnare 葯i insolen葲膬, de suferin葲膬 葯i impulsivitate, de bun膬tate 葯i dorin葲膬 de a-l jigni gratuit pe cel膬lalt: 鈥濪eodat膬 mi-a venit ideea s膬 fiu deosebit de obraznic...鈥� (p.27).

葮i tot ca 卯n 脦nsemn膬ri din subteran膬, protagonistul 卯nt卯lne葯te o femeie, Maria (la Dostoievski se numea Liza), la fel de fl膬m卯nd膬 ca el, la fel de singur膬 葯i dezorientat膬. Nu 葯tim dac膬 este sau nu o femeie de strad膬. B膬rbatul nu g膬se葯te nimic altceva mai nimerit dec卯t s膬-i 葲in膬 un interminabil discurs despre Principii, dup膬 care 卯i recomand膬, ca Iisus Christos odinioar膬, 鈥瀞膬 se duc膬 acas膬 艧i s膬 nu mai p膬c膬tuiasc膬 de aici 卯nainte鈥�.

Dup膬 acest discurs aiuritor, 卯葯i freac膬 m卯inile 葯i-葯i zice satisf膬cut de 鈥瀒sprava鈥� lui: 鈥濩卯t de pl膬cut e s膬 faci fapte bune! Poate c膬 i-am dat acelei fiin牛e dec膬zute un prim impuls ca s膬 se ridice din nou, ceea ce ar putea fi hot膬r卯tor pentru 卯ntreaga ei via牛膬, 卯mi va mul牛umi c卯nd se va g卯ndi la asta; p卯n膬 艧i 卯n ceasul mor牛ii 卯艧i va aduce aminte de mine cu inima plin膬 de recuno艧tin牛膬鈥� (p.103).

脦n opinia mea, sugestia c膬r葲ii lui Hamsun este c膬, 卯n 卯mprejur膬ri extreme, nu ajunge s膬 fii inocent pentru a fi 葯i a r膬m卯ne om. Inocen葲a omului nu rezist膬 prea mult. 葮i nici omul odat膬 cu ea...
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October 26, 2017
What is it that differentiates dignity from stubbornness?
Moral rectitude from pride?
Attitude. Intention. Motivation.
Knut Hamsun鈥檚 autobiographical novella explores the tenuous line that separates the iron will from the almost obsession of an aspiring writer who refuses to give way to the silent pressure of a dehumanized society that insists on nullifying his efforts to earn his living through his writing.

The protagonist is a nameless narrator who seldom raises sympathy from an estranged reader because he seems to be the source of all his misery and keeps on refusing help that is not merited by what he considers honest means 鈥� in his standards, composing high quality articles.
Such apparently scrupulous moral values collide violently with the fastidious nature of this dubious individual. He is vengeful, arrogant and self-righteous; a narcissist, a masochist who grovels in self-pity one moment and is inexplicably ecstatic the next, spurred by his unappreciated worthiness as an artist of the word. Is it delusion or outstanding genius that rules his erratic actions?

Presented in four fragmented chapters, the dramatic spectrum of Knut鈥檚 setting contrasts with the acerbic humor displayed by the unattractive narrator, and there is a cyclical pattern in the manifestations of both shown always in the same order: jocularity that go hand in hand with relative economic stability at the beginning of each section and a galloping downfall towards uttermost penury that almost ends by the protagonist鈥檚 death from prolonged periods of starvation to close each part.
Kristiana, the Norwegian city, opens and closes the story and remains the impassible spectator of the tribulations of this individual and the silent prosecutor of his fate, echoing authors like Rodenbach, Camus or Kafka who depicted alienation amidst an indifferent society using the modernistic hues of symbolism, surrealism and existentialist doctrines.

At the end of the last chapter, the reader has followed the histrionic ups and downs of a man who has stopped being ashamed of his poverty, a man who has suffered a subtle but ongoing transformation and defeated his physical needs, his craving for acceptance and social recognition. He always arrives late, the clock mocks him, but he tries and tries and tries again, almost in Sisyphean effort. Extreme hunger hasn鈥檛 killed him, cold and permanent dampness hasn鈥檛 frozen his spirit, repeated rejection hasn鈥檛 diminished his self-esteem. Contrarily, the extremity of his degradation has given free rein to his creative drive, and the hunger to write, the lust to compose is what has kept him alive, what has finally set him free.

I stare at the cover illustration of my edition, Edvard Munch鈥檚 鈥淎nxiety鈥�, and ponder about the real horrors of existence. It might be better to embrace loneliness as one of the predominant states in human nature than to sell one鈥檚 soul for the superficial acceptance of the faceless multitude that silently marches off towards the comfortable palace of invisibility. But, is it?
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April 19, 2020
Tengo debilidad por este tipo de personajes y m谩s cuando est谩n narrados, como esta, en primera persona, no es extra帽o que me haya gustado tanto la novela.

Hamsun consigue de forma admirable nuestra adhesi贸n al personaje, nuestra compasi贸n por este ser tan infantil, tan inmaduro, tan inocente en su solitaria y menesterosa situaci贸n. Lo que no quita que tambi茅n nos ponga un poquito nerviosos con sus in煤tiles arranques de quijotesca generosidad autocomplaciente, su idealismo, la visi贸n rom谩ntica y brillante que tiene de s铆 mismo y que le aboca a la situaci贸n en la que vive y de cuya responsabilidad declina rabiosamente. Dan ganas de cogerle de los hombros y agitarlo para ver si se mueve dentro de 茅l un poco los fundamentos de su masoquista inclinaci贸n a la culpa y al autocastigo, su capacidad mistificadora de oprobios. Pero, sobre todo, nos afligimos con 茅l.

Y nos afligimos con 茅l porque somos residentes de una c谩rcel parecida, de una c谩rcel de la que no podemos escapar: no podemos dejar de ser nosotros mismos. Y esto es en gran parte, la tesis del libro.
鈥淟a locura se apodera rabiosa de mi cerebro y yo se lo permito, soy muy consciente de que estoy sometido a influencias sobre las que no tengo ning煤n control鈥�
Estamos presos de nuestro temperamento, de nuestro car谩cter, de nuestras capacidades, de nuestros esquemas mentales, no siempre reconocibles, de nuestras pulsiones interiores, no siempre conscientes y, por tanto y a menudo, fuera de nuestro control. No siempre sabemos por qu茅 sentimos lo que sentimos, por qu茅 de repente cambia ese sentimiento, por qu茅 nos arrepentimos tan pronto de reacciones que nos parecieron tan adecuadas en su momento, por qu茅 reaccionamos de la manera que lo hacemos, de forma tan impropia, llegamos a pensar, de nosotros mismos. Como al protagonista sin nombre de la novela, parece que es el mero azar, la pura aleatoriedad mental, la que protagoniza en ocasiones nuestra psique. No controlamos nuestro destino. Nos enga帽amos, nos mentimos, nos justificamos. Pobres de nosotros.
鈥淗e hecho un intento de escribir鈥� un libro sobre las delicadas oscilaciones de una vulnerable alma humana, sobre esa extra帽a vida de la mente, sobre los misterios de los nervios en un cuerpo consumido por el hambre.鈥�
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February 12, 2016

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賰賱賾 賮氐賱 賴賵 乇丨賱丞 賲毓丕賳丕丞 鬲賱賴孬 賮賷賴丕 賲毓 丕賱亘胤賱 賵賱丕 鬲爻鬲胤賷毓 丕賱鬲賵賯賮 賱賱丨馗丞 賵丕丨丿丞 丨鬲賶 賳賴丕賷丞 丕賱乇丨賱丞/丕賱賮氐賱
丨賷賳賴丕 賲丕 鬲賱亘孬 兀賳 鬲鬲賵賯賮 賱鬲爻鬲乇丿 兀賳賮丕爻賰 丨鬲賶 鬲亘丿兀 乇丨賱丞 噩丿賷丿丞 賵賮氐賱 噩丿賷丿 賱丕 鬲爻鬲胤賷毓 賲賳毓 賳賮爻賰 賲賳 丕賱禺賵囟 賮賷賴賲丕



賴賳丕 賱丕 賷鬲丨丿孬 毓賳 丕賱噩賵毓 亘賱 毓賳 鬲兀孬賷乇賴
賷毓賰爻 賲賳 禺賱丕賱 亘胤賱 乇賵丕賷鬲賴 氐賵乇丞 賲乇毓亘丞 毓賳 鬲兀孬賷乇 丕賱噩賵毓 賵丕賱賮賯乇
賰賷賮 賵囟毓賴 賮賷 丨丕賱丞 賲賳 丕賱賵賴賳 丕賱丿丕卅賲 賵丕賱囟毓賮 賵丕賱賴夭丕賱貙 亘賵噩賴 賵噩爻丿 賲乇毓亘 賱丕 賷賲鬲 賱賱亘卮乇 亘氐賱丞
賵丨丕賱丞 賳賮爻賷丞 鬲噩毓賱賴 賴卮 賰兀賵乇丕賯 丕賱卮噩乇 丕賱禺乇賷賮賷丞貙 賷亘賰賷 賱兀亘爻胤 丕賱兀卮賷丕亍 賵賷囟丨賰 賮賷 賲賵丕賯賮 賱丕 鬲鬲丨賲賱 丕賱囟丨賰
丨丕賱丞 賱丕 賲鬲賳丕賴賷丞 賲賳 丕賱禺亘賱 賵丕賱賴匕賷丕賳貙 亘賷賳 丕賱鬲囟乇毓 賱賱賴 丨賷賳賸丕 賵丕賱賰賮乇 亘賵噩賵丿賴 丨賷賳賸丕 丌禺乇
賷爻賷乇 賮賷 丕賱胤乇賯丕鬲 賷丨丿孬 賳賮爻賴 賷囟丨賰 賲毓賴丕 賵賷亘賰賷 亘爻亘亘賴丕 賵賷購亘賰賷賴丕
賷乇鬲賰亘 丕賱丨賲丕賯丕鬲貙 賷丐匕賷 丕賱賳丕爻 賱丕 賱卮賷亍 爻賵賶 鬲賮乇賷睾 賲毓丕賳丕鬲賴貙 賵賷爻丕毓丿賴賲 丨賷賳賸丕 賵賱賵 毓賱賶 丨爻丕亘 賳賮爻賴 賮賷夭賷丿 賲賳 賲毓丕賳丕鬲賴



賰賷賮 賷賲賰賳 兀賳 鬲賵賱丿 賲賳 賰賱賾 賴匕賴 丕賱賲毓丕賳丕丞 廿亘丿丕毓 賲丕 賮賷 丕賱賵賯鬲 丕賱匕賷 賱丕 賷爻鬲胤賷毓 賮賷賴 賲賳 卮丿丞 丕賱噩賵毓 丕賱鬲賮賰賷乇 賵賱賵 賱丨馗丞 賮賷 賲丕丿丞 丕賱賲賯丕賱 賵廿匕丕 兀賵丨賶 廿賱賷賴 丕賱賯丿乇 亘賮賰乇丞 賷囟胤乇 賱乇亘胤 賷丿賷賴 賱賷鬲賲賰賳 賲賳 丕賱賰鬲丕亘丞
賵賲丕匕丕 毓賳 丕賱賲亘丕丿卅責
賮賱鬲匕賴亘 丕賱賲亘丕丿卅 廿賱賶 丕賱噩丨賷賲
廿賲丕 兀賳 賷亘賷毓賴丕 賱賷爻丿 噩賵毓賴貙 賵廿賲丕 爻賷鬲乇賰賴 丕賱噩賵毓 賷賱鬲賴賲 賲亘丕丿卅賴 兀賵 鬲賱鬲賴賲賴 賴賷

丕賱噩賵毓 賵丕賱賮賯乇 賴賲丕 兀賯匕乇 卮賷亍 賷賲賰賳 兀賳 賷賲乇賾 亘賴 丕賱廿賳爻丕賳
賷購噩乇丿 賲賳 廿賳爻丕賳賷鬲賴 賵賷氐亘丨 亘賱丕 丕丨鬲乇丕賲 賵賱丕 賰乇丕賲丞 賵賱丕 賲亘丕丿卅
乇亘賲丕 賴賵 匕丕鬲賴 賷賰乇賴 賳賮爻賴 賵賷丨鬲賯乇賴丕

乇賵丕賷丞 賲乇毓亘丞貙 賱兀賳賴丕 鬲噩毓賱賰 鬲囟毓 賳賮爻賰 賲賰丕賳 亘胤賱賴丕
賰賷賮 爻賷賰賵賳 毓賱賷賰 鬲丨賲賱 賰賱賾 賴匕賴 丕賱賲毓丕賳丕丞 賵丕賱噩賵毓 丕賱匕賷 賷噩毓賱賰 鬲賯囟賲 兀氐丕亘毓賰 賵鬲賮賰乇 賮賷 丌賰賱賴丕
賷噩毓賱賰 鬲亘賱毓 乇賷賯賰 毓卮乇丕鬲 丕賱賲乇丕鬲 丨鬲賶 賷噩賮 丨賱賯賰
賲購乇毓亘丞貙 賱賰賳賴丕 爻鬲噩毓賱賰 鬲賮賰乇賾 亘卮賰賱 兀賮囟賱
亘卮賰賱 賲禺鬲賱賮 :)

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711 reviews22 followers
August 23, 2016




I did not feel anything while reading this novel.

Well, this is not strictly true. What I mean is that I felt no pity, no compassion, no sorrow, no empathy, while following the struggles, the penuries, the poverty, the deprivation, the hunger, of the nameless protagonist.

My feelings were not of the humanitarian type, but of the literary.

I was astonished at the literary proposal Hamsun had written in what was still the nineteenth century. The 鈥榝l芒neur鈥� existence of the narrator made me think of Baudelaire, but this is no gentleman who idly strolls an urban landscape. Hamsun鈥檚 man is certainly urban; he is a writer, a journalist really. But he is prey to an anxiety and to his own excruciating self-examination. His poverty places him on the opposite side of dandy. But he is very modern too; just another epitome of modernity. The author鈥檚 ability to develop this character in all his plight without making me feel any commiseration for the stroller, astounded me. Very different writing from a nineteenth century naturalist depiction of poverty to provoke the reader's or viewer's emotions.

Rather, I felt admiration for this man who is in a continuous and desperate need of nourishment, manages, however, to keep his spirits up and who, when encountering any little surprise or sparkle, is even capable of feeling exhilaration quickly forgetting that he is in dire straits. The absence of social analysis or criticism, and the character鈥檚 moral dignity distances him from any portrayal as a victim. There is humour too, and this has the effect of letting tension dissolve - but only at intervals, before it builds up again. And as this anonymous person also has inclination to web lies around his existence, to no purpose, just to avoid anyone getting too close to him 鈥� whether this is another fictional character, or the reader--, he remains elusive.

No, I could not feel pity for him.

The hunger he feels seems part of his nature, for even when he manages to swallow some food, his body cannot take it and he vomits it and expels it out of his system. Feeling hungry is not something that happens to him, but is his mode of existence.

That is, until he gets tired of this, and leaves.

And I am left in literary perplexity.

**

I used the edition translated by Sverre Lyngstad. He has also included an essay on the Translation issues as well as a comparative table of terms in this edition.

This is the one I would recommend.
Profile Image for Lynne King.
498 reviews808 followers
September 15, 2015
Last night the 鈥渇og鈥� finally left me as effortlessly as it had arrived seven months ago. My mourning period was now officially over, although the good memories would be firmly entrenched forever in my mind, as well as the sad ones. I shed my widow鈥檚 weeds. Also the tears surprisingly enough poured for the first time in ages. I certainly do not have a weak character. I had been in the doldrums and was not progressing, nor 鈥渢urning the page鈥�. Knut showed me via 鈥淗unger鈥� (Norwegian: 鈥淪ult鈥�) that one has to continue with life regardless; forget hunger, forget the dark shadows, the periods of feeling sorry for oneself, just survive, continue on regardless whatever happens, for life has given you another chance and another adventure to pursue. So grab it and forge with speed into the sunlight. I鈥檓 sure as I look down the valley to the backdrop of my beloved Pyrenean mountain range and the Pic d鈥橝ni that they would agree wholeheartedly with me, as would my husband John.

I do believe in serendipity, as well as destiny and I do believe that I was meant to read this book. I had read Steve鈥檚 and Rakhi鈥檚 reviews a while back but to me they were purely excellent reviews as so many are on 欧宝娱乐. But then suddenly another review appeared and it affected me for some singular reason. Perhaps I had to read it?

Upon reading the first paragraph, I was hooked and ready for this wonderful literary journey:

It was during the time I wondered about and starved in Christiania; Christiania, singular city, from which no man departs without carrying away the traces of his sojourn there.

And did that indeed prove to be the case.

This book is such a mixed bag of philosophical and multi-faceted reveries, vagaries and ideas. Our unnamed narrator (why would an author want to leave a narrator without a name? I鈥檝e never understood that) runs the gamut of every conceivable emotion:

Anger, aversion, courage, dejection, desire, despair, fear, hate, hope, love, sadness. (M.B. Arnold 1996)

The average individual with a good job will never know about hunger. Imagine going without food for two or three days because there鈥檚 no money to purchase even a loaf of bread and finally drinking water, which causes the individual to retch.

Imagine, even when on your uppers as in the case of our author, you are so convinced of your literary aspirations that you persevere regardless, even though you have nowhere to live, as there鈥檚 no money to pay the rent; finally losing the one pencil you own and so thus being unable to write an article for 鈥淐ommodore鈥�, the narrator鈥檚 lifeline for survival.

Imagine feeling desire and lust for a woman when your clothes are in rags but nevertheless wanting to pursue it through to the utter end.

Imagine feeling so frustrated with yourself that you succumb to anger and hold inner conflicting arguments and discussions and even wonder if you are becoming insane.

Imagine crawling back to a lodging house, even though the thought humiliates you, when the pregnant landlady has already thrown you out for not paying your rent.

Imagine lying so that people will still think that you are working and finally, imagine being so convinced of your own writing ability that you continue and continue but when finally鈥� Well that is for you the reader to find out.

There are so many excellent sections in here in which to quote but if I did that I would indeed be quoting the entire book. However, I have to add the following:

There is an amazing section when 鈥淐ommodore鈥�, who has accepted articles/essays from the narrator in the past, who upon seeing the latter staggering due to lack of food, gives him half-a sovereign. He鈥檚 certainly clever and that鈥檚 for sure as he knows that a good article will eventually be forthcoming from our narrator.

The humility of our narrator upon this act:

I was left standing on the pavement, gazing after him. I wept quietly and silently. 鈥淚 never saw the like!鈥� I said to myself. 鈥淗e gave me half-a-sovereign.鈥� I walked back and placed myself where he had stood, imitated all his movements, held the half-sovereign up to my moistened eyes, inspected it on both side, and began to swear 鈥� to swear at the top of my voice, that there was no manner of doubt that what I held in my hand was a half-sovereign.

When I came across 鈥淵lajali鈥�, I assumed in ignorance this was the name of the woman who the narrator was facing and for whom he felt such desire:

I stand and gaze into her eyes, and hit, on the spur of the moment, on a name which I have never heard before 鈥� a name with a gliding, nervous sound 鈥� Ylajali!

I was fascinated by this name. It appeared to be so exotic but with a Yiddish ring to it. I researched into it and found:

The name is not only a symbolic substitute for the desired woman. It is also a symbol of desire itself 鈥� considered in the Lacanian sense of a drive sustained by lack, sliding from element to element in the chain of symbolic substitutes, and which can never be fulfilled without losing its character of being desire: Y-la-ja-li

Although 鈥淗unger鈥� proved to be a sensation upon publication, many individuals objected to him. Firstly Knut Hamsun was an unknown quantity and was:

a true scion of the best old peasant stock. Through the impressions of his childhood and early youth he became affiliated with the volatile race of Nordland, a people as alien from the heavier inland peasant as if they lived on different continents. The fishermen who play with death for the wealth of the sea and depend for their livelihood on the caprices of nature do not easily harden into traditional moulds. Childish and improvident, witty and sentimental, often fond of the melodramatic, simple and yet shrewd, superstitious but brave beyond all praise, the native of Nordland is a type unlike every other Norwegian. Wherever he may roam, he will yearn for the wonderland of his youth鈥s from the nature of Nordland with its alternations of melting loveliness and stark gloom that he drew his poetic inspiration.

During his second stay in America, between 1886 and 1888, he worked as a navvy and for nine months as a tramconductor in Chicago. He was known for his habit of reading Aristotle and Euripides between stops. He was very poor and weathered the deep winter of Chicago by wearing newspaper under his clothes; his colleagues liked to touch him to make him crackle..

Our author was a true wanderer throughout his life and perhaps probably due to this, he learned humility and all those other good aspects that make up our lives as human beings.

I really admire this author and am so delighted that I鈥檝e read this remarkable book. For me there鈥檚 something special about Norwegian authors that manages to touch my psyche. Is it the weather that brings such incredible richness to these Norwegian works? I really don鈥檛 know. Purely one of the wonders of our life on this remarkable planet, Earth, I guess.

And finally, my special thanks to Will for helping me out of the 鈥渇og鈥�.


Profile Image for Seemita.
187 reviews1,725 followers
October 24, 2015
A review of this book from my pen is akin to injustice. After all, what do I know of hunger? Something that loses its meaning with a hop to the kitchen? A need that vanishes with the stair-climbing to the canteen? A routine that knocks every four hours, only to be dispatched back to its den with a pouring of necessary and unnecessary stuff? A fuel that is available at an arm鈥檚 length? A six-lettered word that assumes greater importance in symbolic garb than its bare attire?

I have been fortunate. This beast has not imprisoned me beyond few days. But on those very few days, I have met him. On those few, religious days when I have been compelled to meet him, I have met him. On those unannounced stranded days when a morsel had been a long meeting away, I have met him. In the eyes; stark and dark. And he runs havoc. He gnaws with his sharp paws and he shrieks in his piercing voice, he snaps my nervous tranquilities and he slaps my organ鈥檚 functionalities, he throws vile liquids up my throat and he shovels my ideals out of the window.

Probably that is why, I could fathom the emotions running hysterically amok within the unnamed protagonist of this novel, who had only one enemy: hunger. A writer, who likes diving into the inky seas of politics, drama, poetry and recitation on the bed of teeming, blank pages, finds his resources maliciously blackened under the noxious cloud of prolonged hunger. He chews on stale bread and squeezes into abandoned spaces but the beast finds him there. He bites into meatless bones and clutches his stomach under pungent blankets but the beast turns up again. To appease the beast, he devours coarse pieces of wood, mouths half of his shirt鈥檚 pockets and licks his own blood but the beast pounds on his doors again, and again, and again; without rest, without pause, in harrowing ferocity, in towering intimidation.
It is as if a score of diminutive gnome-like insects set their heads on one side and gnawed for a little, then laid their heads on the other side and gnawed a little more, then lay quite still for a moment鈥檚 space, and then began afresh, boring noiselessly in, and without any haste, and left empty spaces everywhere after them as they went on.
However, despite this unbearable burden of abject poverty and indeterminate survival, he releases episodes into his life that brings one of the foremost teachings of my father, rushing to my mind. My baba, as I address him, maintained that one can live without food for days, without peace for hours and without air for minutes but one cannot live without dignity and self-respect for even a second.

Having subjected it to numerous tests with nil fallacy, I am assured of the accuracy of this lesson and hence, the sight of our protagonist preserving his self-respect at the cost of handing his inhumanly underfed body, a sentence of further abjuration, left a restorative smile on my face. He keeps his skin of honesty wrapped tight to his resilient heart, despite the shrinking and eventual shedding of external clothing in lieu of a token crumb to humour the raging beast. And almost logically but irregularly, the beast accepts taming when the halo from that resilient heart assumes indomitable magnificence, blind-folding it in layers of goodness, humour, affection, companionship and praise for the creator.

The breadth of this work expands in multidimensional plains of psychology and multifarious schemas of sociology, effecting an amalgamation of astounding inferences that can be picked at every small juncture of the alleys running in human psyche; I cannot credit Hamsun enough for his surgical precision in uncovering the human mind and segregating his nervous dynamics, keeping the black and white in their birth colors, diluting none and awarding credit for the role each one plays.

Hamsun was considered to be often skewed towards an asocial vision, alienating tendencies and isolated ways of life. But perhaps it is essential to understand the asocial knot to thread the social yarn; much like the shadows retreating behind opaque patches for the sunshine to melt and clear the vision.

I do not wish the fate of our protagonist to anyone. But if you stumble upon one, exhibit some chivalry, sensitivity and measured humour 鈥� the proven sedatives for the beast.
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437 reviews620 followers
July 22, 2016
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丕賵 乇丕 亘禺丕胤乇 賮賯乇卮 胤乇丿 賲蹖 讴賳賳丿. 亘丕 丕蹖賳丨丕賱 丕賵 丕賳爻丕賳蹖 賳蹖爻鬲 讴賴 丕夭 讴爻蹖 诏丿丕蹖蹖 讴賳丿
賵 賵賯鬲蹖 鬲賱丕卮 賴丕蹖卮 亘乇丕蹖 倬蹖丿丕 讴乇丿賳 讴丕乇 賵 睾匕丕 亘蹖 丕孬乇 賲蹖 賲丕賳丿貨
亘賴 賲乇诏 賲蹖 丕賳丿蹖卮丿

趩乇丕 丌賳 賴賲賴 賵賯鬲 乇丕 鬲賱賮 讴乇丿賴 亘賵丿賲貙 鬲賲丕賲 乇賵夭 亘賴 丿賳亘丕賱 蹖讴 讴賵乇賵賳 讴賴 趩賳丿 爻丕毓鬲 亘蹖卮 鬲乇 賲蹖 鬲賵丕賳爻鬲 夭賳丿賴 丕賲 賳诏賴 丿丕乇丿 丕夭 丕蹖賳噩丕 亘賴 丌賳噩丕 丿賵蹖丿賴 亘賵丿賲責 丿乇 賵丕賯毓 賲诏乇 亘蹖 丕賴賲蹖鬲 賳亘賵丿 讴賴 丕賲乇 丕噩鬲賳丕亘 賳丕倬匕蹖乇 蹖讴 乇賵夭 夭賵丿鬲乇 蹖丕 蹖讴 乇賵夭 丿蹖乇鬲乇 亘乇爻丿責


丌禺乇 丿丕爻鬲丕賳 丕夭 禺賵丿鬲 賲蹖 倬乇爻蹖 丌蹖丕 噩丕賲毓賴 賲丕 賴賲 丕蹖賳诏賵賳賴 賳蹖爻鬲責 賵 亘丕 乇賵卮賳賮讴乇丕賳卮 乇賮鬲丕乇蹖 丕蹖賳 趩賳蹖賳 賳丿丕乇丿責
趩乇丕 丕賲丕 禺蹖賱蹖 亘丿鬲乇貨 丌賳賴丕 乇丕 亘卮丿鬲 賲蹖 讴賵亘賳丿
賳賵蹖爻賳丿賴 丕蹖 賲孬賴 氐丕丿賯 賴丿丕蹖鬲 乇丕 賳賯丿 賳賲蹖 讴賳賳丿 鬲乇賵乇 卮禺氐蹖鬲蹖 賲蹖 讴賳賳丿
!亘賴 賯賵賱 禺賵丕賳賳丿賴 丕蹖 賲毓乇賵賮 : 乇賵夭蹖 讴賴 氐丕丿賯賵 亘賴 噩乇賲賽 禺賵丿讴卮蹖 讴卮鬲賳

卮丕蹖丿 趩蹖夭蹖 讴賴 氐丕丿賯 乇丕 亘蹖卮鬲乇 鬲乇睾蹖亘 亘賴 禺賵丿讴卮蹖 讴乇丿 賴賲蹖賳 噩丕賲毓賴 丕氐賱丕丨 賳丕倬匕蹖乇 禺賵丿賲丕賳 亘賵丿
丕賳夭噩丕乇卮 丕夭 噩丕賲毓賴 丿乇 丕蹖賳 噩賲賱賴 丕卮 讴丕賲賱丕 賲卮禺氐 丕爻鬲: 賴賲丕賳賯丿乇 讴賴 賲丕 亘賴 爻丕丿诏蹖 賳蹖丕讴丕賳 禺賵丿 禺賳丿蹖丿蹖賲貙 乇賵夭蹖 賲蹖 丌蹖丿 讴賴 丌蹖賳丿诏丕賳 亘賴 禺乇丕賮丕鬲 賲丕 禺賵丕賴賳丿 禺賳丿蹖丿

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乇丕爻賰賵賱賳賷賰賵賮 丌禺乇責

賱丕 兀毓賱賲 賱賲丕匕丕 鬲匕賰乇鬲 乇丕爻賰賵賱賳賷賰賵賮 賴匕丕貙 亘胤賱 乇賵丕賷丞 丕賱噩乇賷賲丞 賵丕賱毓賯丕亘 賱賱賲購毓賱賲 丕賱毓馗賷賲貨 賮賷賵丿賵乇 丿賵爻鬲賵賷賮爻賰賷貙 丨賷賳 卮乇毓鬲 賮賷 賯乇丕亍丞 賴匕賷 丕賱乇賵丕賷丞.!
賮亘賲噩乇丿 兀賳 賯乇兀鬲 賮賯胤 賲丕 賷賯丕乇亘 丕賱毓卮乇 氐賮丨丕鬲 賲賳賴丕 丨鬲賶 兀丿乇賰鬲 匕賱賰貙 賵賮毓賱賸丕 賯乇兀鬲 賮賷賲丕 亘毓丿 兀賳 賰賳賵鬲貙 賳賮爻賴貙 賯丿 兀賯乇 亘兀賳賴 丕爻鬲賱賴賲 賯氐丞 亘胤賱賴 賴匕丕 賲賳 乇賵丕賷丞 丕賱噩乇賷賲丞 賵丕賱毓賯丕亘 賱賱丨亘賷亘 "丿賵爻鬲賵賷賮爻賰賷".

賯丿 賷乇噩毓 賴匕丕 賱鬲卮丕亘賴 卮禺氐賷鬲賷賴賲丕責 賳賮爻 丕賱亘丐爻貙 賳賮爻 丕賱賵馗賷賮丞貙 亘賱貙 賳賮爻 丕賱毓亘賯乇賷丞責
乇亘賲丕
賰賳賵鬲 賴賻賲爻賵賳貙 賴匕丕 丕賱乇賵丕卅賷 丕賱匕賷貙 賱噩賴賱賷貙 賱賲 兀爻賲毓 毓賳賴 賲賳 賯亘賱 兀亘丿賸丕貙 廿賱丕 賲賳 賮鬲乇丞 賷爻賷乇丞 賱賱睾丕賷丞貙 賳匕乇鬲 丨賷賳賴丕 賱賱賴 賵毓丿賸丕 亘兀賳 兀賯乇兀 賰賱 賲丕 賰鬲亘貙 兀賵 毓賱賶 丕賱兀賯賱 賰賱 賲丕 鬲乇噩賲 賱賴!
賴賰匕丕貙 賵亘丿賵賳 兀賷 賲賯丿賲丕鬲貙 丕爻鬲卮毓乇鬲 丨賷賳 賯乇兀鬲 賳亘匕丞 爻乇賷毓丞 毓賳 丨賷丕鬲賴 亘賰賵賳賴 乇噩賱 噩丿賷乇 亘兀賳 賷購賯乇兀 賱賴
賵丕爻鬲卮乇賮鬲 賮賷賴 賰丕鬲亘賸丕 毓亘賯乇賷賸丕- 賵賯亘賱 賰賱 卮賷- 賮賷賱爻賵賮賸丕 毓賯賱丕賳賷 賮匕.
丿乇爻 賰賳賵鬲 丕賱賮賱爻賮丞 亘賲禺鬲賱賮 賮乇賵毓賴丕貙 賮賱賴 丿乇丕賷丞 亘丕賱賵囟毓賷丞 丕賱賲賳胤賯賷丞貙 賵賱賴 毓賱賲 亘賮賱爻賮丞 丕賱毓賱賵賲貙 賵丿乇爻 丕賱賲賳胤賯 賵毓賱賵賲 丕賱胤亘賷毓丞 賵丿乇爻 賰匕賱賰 丕賱賱丕賴賵鬲 賵丕賱賮賱爻賮丞 丕賱丨丿賷孬丞
賵賱毓賱 賴匕丕 賰丕賳 賲鬲噩賱賷賸丕 賵丕囟丨賸丕 賮賷 卮禺氐賷丞 丕賱亘胤賱貙 丕賱賲孬賯賮貙 丕賱賮賯賷乇貙 丕賱匕賷 賷亘賷毓 毓賱賲賴 亘兀亘禺爻 丕賱兀孬賲丕賳 賱賲噩乇丿 丕賱鬲丨氐賱 毓賱賶 丕賱毓賷卮貙 賱賷鬲賯賵鬲 亘賴.
丕禺鬲丕乇 賱賳丕 賰賳賵鬲 賴賳丕 賮賰乇丞 毓馗賷賲丞貙 丿丕乇鬲 丨賵賱賴丕 乇賵丕賷鬲賴 賰賱賴丕貙 賵亘賳賶 毓賱賷賴丕 兀爻 丕賱乇賵丕賷丞 賰賰賱貙 賵賴賷 丕賱噩賵毓貙 賴匕賴 丕賱賲卮賰賱丞 丕賱亘丕卅爻丞 丕賱鬲賷 賱胤丕賱賲丕 賯囟鬲 賲囟丕噩毓 丕賱賰孬賷乇.
氐賵乇 賱賳丕 賰賳賵鬲 賴賳丕 賯賲丞 丕賱亘丐爻 丕賱鬲賷 賯丿 鬲氐賱 廿賱賷賴丕 丨丕賱丞 丕賱廿賳爻丕賳 賮賷 兀賷 賲噩鬲賲毓
氐賵乇 賱賳丕 亘賯丿乇鬲賴 丕賱乇賴賷亘丞 賲丕 鬲賲鬲賱卅 亘賴 丿賳賷丕賳丕 賲賳 賮賯乇 賵噩賵乇 亘賱 賵噩卮毓 兀賷囟賸丕
氐賵乇 賰匕賱賰 丕賱賳賮爻 丕賱亘卮乇賷丞貙 亘賰賱 賲鬲賳丕賯囟丕鬲賴丕貙 賮賷 賮賷 卮禺氐 丕賱亘胤賱 賴匕丕
賮賴賵 丕賱亘丕卅爻貙 賵丕賱睾賳賷 丕賱賲鬲乇賮毓貙 丕賱夭丕賴丿 賵丕賱毓乇亘賷丿貙 丕賱噩賵毓丕賳貙 賵丕賱卮亘毓 賰匕賱賰
匕賵 丕賱賰亘乇賷丕亍 丕賱卮丿賷丿貙 丕賱匕賷 丿賮毓賴 兀賷囟賸丕 賱卮丨匕 丕賱鬲毓丕胤賮 賲賳 丕賱亘卮乇!
丕賱亘丕卅爻 丕賱匕賷 賷卮毓乇 亘丕賱賮賯乇 賵丕賱噩賵毓貙 亘賱 賵丕賱毓賵夭 賰匕賱賰貙 賵賲丕 廿賳 賷丨賵夭 毓賱賶 乇賷丕賱 賵丕丨丿 丨鬲賶 鬲噩丿賴 賷毓胤賷賴 賱兀賵賱 卮禺氐 賷賯丕亘賱賴. 賰賱 賴匕賴 丕賱賲鬲賳丕賯囟丕鬲 賮賷 卮禺氐 賵丕丨丿 賮賯胤貙 賴賱 賷毓賯賱 賴匕丕!
兀卮丿 賲丕 兀毓噩亘賳賷 賮賷 賴匕賴 丕賱乇賵丕賷丞貙 賱賷爻鬲 丕賱賯氐丞 丕賱亘爻賷胤丞 賵賱丕 丕賱丨亘賰丞 賵賱丕 卮賷亍貙 亘賱 賯丿乇丞 賰賳賵鬲 毓賱賶 丕爻鬲丨囟丕乇 丕賱賲卮賴丿 賵賵囟毓 丕賱賯丕乇卅 亘賷賳 賷丿賷 丕賱亘胤賱貙 賮賴賵 賷賳賯賱賰貙 毓賳 胤乇賷賯 賯賱賲賴 丕賱亘丿賷毓貙 賱兀噩賵丕亍 丕賱賯氐丞貙 賮鬲卮毓乇 亘兀賳賰 鬲乇賶 丕賱亘胤賱 亘兀賲 毓賷賳賰貙 賵鬲噩丿 賳賮爻賰 鬲鬲毓丕胤賮 賲毓賴 賵賲毓 賲氐丕卅亘賴.
丕賱亘胤賱 丕賱賲丐賲賳貙 賵丕賱賰丕賮乇貙 賵丕賱孬丕卅乇 毓賱賶 賯丿乇賴 賵毓賱賶 鬲賯丿賷乇丕鬲 丕賱乇亘貙 鬲噩丿賴 賮賷 丨賷賳 賷爻鬲睾賮乇 賱兀亘爻胤 匕賳亘貙 賵賮賷 丨賷賳 丌禺乇 賷賱毓賳 賵賷爻亘 丕賱爻賲丕亍 賵丕賱兀賯丿丕乇 賵丕賱鬲乇鬲賷亘丕鬲 丕賱廿賱賴賷丞
乇賵丕賷丞 賲賱賷卅丞 亘丕賱鬲賳丕賯囟丕鬲 賲賳 兀賵賱賴丕 丨鬲賶 丌禺乇賴丕貙 乇噩賱 賱丕 賷毓乇賮 兀賷賳 鬲賯賵丿賴 禺胤丕賴貙 賵賱丕 賷毓亘兀 賰匕賱賰 亘兀賷 卮賷亍貙 賷爻鬲噩丿賷 丕賱毓胤賮 賵賲賳 孬賲 賷鬲乇賮毓貙 賷卮丨匕 賮賱爻 賱賷兀賰賱 賵賲賳 孬賲 賷毓胤賷賴 賱賲賳 賴賵 兀賮賯乇 賲賳賴貙 賷噩賲毓 賰賱 賲丕 賮賷 丕賱廿賳爻丕賳 賲賳 禺亘賱 賵鬲賳丕賯囟 賵毓亘賯乇賷丞 賰匕賱賰.
氐毓賯鬲 賱賱睾丕賷丞 毓賳丿賲丕 毓賱賲鬲 亘兀賳 亘毓囟 賴匕賴 丕賱乇賵丕賷丞 鬲丨賵賷 兀丨丿丕孬賸丕 賵丕賯毓賷丞 賲賳 丨賷丕丞 丕賱賰丕鬲亘貙 賵亘兀賳賴丕 爻賷乇丞-卮亘賴 匕丕鬲賷丞- 賲賲丕 毓丕賷卮賴 丕賱賰丕鬲亘 賮賷 爻賮乇鬲賴 賱兀賵夭賱賵/兀賵爻賱賵/ 兀賵 兀賵卮賱賵 亘丕賱賳乇賵賷噩賷丞貙 毓丕氐賲丞 賲賲賱賰丞 丕賱賳乇賵賷噩.
賮賱丕 卮賰 廿匕賳 兀賳 丕賱毓匕丕亘 賵丕賱賮賯乇 賵丕賱賲丌爻賷 鬲氐賳毓 丕賱毓亘賯乇賷丞貙 賲孬賱賲丕 賴賳丕 賵賲孬賱賲丕 賰丕賳 丿賵賲賸丕
乇賵丕賷丞 賲鬲賲賷夭丞 賱賱睾丕賷丞貙 兀賵賱 賲丕 兀賯乇兀 賱賰賳賵鬲貙 賵兀賵賱 賲丕 賯乇兀鬲 賮賷 丕賱兀丿亘 丕賱賳乇賵賷噩賷
賵賱賳 鬲賰賵賳 丕賱兀禺賷乇丞 亘丕賱鬲兀賰賷丿.
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February 9, 2009
Started reading the original Norwegian edition today. I'm fluent in Swedish but don't really know Norwegian, though I have read maybe half a dozen Norwegian books. Comparing with English, it's rather like reading something in broad Scots dialect that's been written down phonetically. Iain Banks fans will be able to relate.

So far, it's pretty good, but I'm only 15 pages into it.

***

I come down the main staircase of the hotel. At reception, Zenit, the lovely Indian-Swedish girl, is on duty again. I pause and talk with her. My train isn't until the afternoon. Will it be alright if I sit in the restaurant until it's time to leave? She says it's fine. I feel grateful, she is always very kind. She says that she and her boyfriend are looking for a skiing trip. Maybe they will go to Grenoble. I say I have been there, but only in the summer. It's a nice town. I don't understand why I am telling her this. She wants to know what the skiing is like. She says she won't keep me, I was on my way to get breakfast. She's clearly giving me the brush-off. It hasn't happened before.

At breakfast, the waitress asks what I want. I only take the continental buffet. I think at first that all the bread has gone, but then I find some under a cloth. The toaster hardly even warms it up. As usual, the dial is turned to minimum. I don't dare change the setting, so I run the bread twice; it's still underdone. I sit down and eat it, together with a small bowl of muesli. The view from the window is beautiful, and I watch the tide flowing out in the bay. An elderly couple is walking along the beach, together with their dog. The dog is wearing a red coat. It scampers round them in the wet sand. I go back to my room and pack up my things, then come back down to reception. Zenit gives me the bill, and I hand her my Visa card. I fold up the bill and put it away. Then I notice that it is the hotel's copy. She doesn't want to embarrass me, so she keeps my copy instead without saying anything. I go back to the restaurant with my bags. I think I will take out my laptop and work until lunchtime.

I have things I should be doing, but I log on to GoodReads instead. I'm spending far too much time there. No one has commented on my review of Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator. It wasn't really very funny. The mail I sent to the woman who recommended the Hamsun book has bounced. She has disconnected her account. I hardly knew her, but I feel disquieted by this. I am too restless to work, so I decide to post a review of Christer Kihlman's Dyre Prins. As soon as I have done so, I wonder whether it was a good idea. Maybe I shouldn't have said that I had been moved by the scene with the prostitute. People may think that I patronise prostitutes too. I tell myself that this is ridiculous, but I keep thinking about it. It seems even worse though to edit the review.

I suddenly notice that it is nearly one o'clock. They are evidently not going to open the restaurant for lunch. I should have understood that. I consider going into Newquay and finding a place to eat, but it's too complicated. During the off season, nearly everything will be closed. I write a few mails and chat with some GoodReads friends. Then I go back to reception for the third time. Zenit is still there. She looks surprised, and asks if I have missed my train. I suddenly feel anxious. Maybe I got the time wrong? But no, it is not due for another three quarters of an hour. I ask if she can call a taxi. She does so. I say goodbye and go out to wait for it.

The taxi driver explains why there are no RyanAir flights at the moment. The Newquay airport authorities refused to give the airline a guarantee that the repairs would be finished within three weeks, so RyanAir withdrew flights until the beginning of March. Now they are threatening to sue, since the airport was clearly at fault. I am grateful to the driver for explaining this, and give him a large tip. He doesn't understand why I have done it, but seems happy.

On the train, I take out Hamsun again. I try to read, but I am unable to concentrate. The difference between Swedish and Norwegian is larger than I had remembered, and I often have to guess words. Sometimes there is a whole sentence that makes no sense. I would like to write a witty GoodReads review, but I can't come up with any ideas. I decide that I will just describe what happened to me today.

***

Thank God! I've now changed trains, and this new one has food. The cheese, bacon and pickle sandwich I purchased from Caf茅 Express was a bit disgusting, but I wolfed it down, together with a mango smoothy. 拢4.70 well spent.

Hm, Hamsun is, as everyone said, rather good, and it's pleasant to see that my Norwegian is coming back by leaps and bounds. Why was I feeling so negative earlier?

***

Not really knowing Norwegian, the way I read the book is to imagine it being read aloud, then listen to it as though it were heavily accented Swedish. This is now working very well. In fact, almost too well... the virtually audible first-person account is quite painful, and I can't read more than a few pages without needing to take a pause. But I feel I'm getting the genuine Hamsun experience, at any rate.

***

I am still wondering why I don't find it at all funny. Jessica T, whose opinion I respect, assures me that she finds black humor here. There are things that I see I could find amusing under slightly different circumstances, but I just don't experience them that way. Everything seems unutterably grim and painful. I was so relieved when the narrator got ten kronor for his newspaper piece!

Either my Norwegian still hasn't come back enough (possible), or I am, for some reason, too close to the subject matter. There was indeed a period of two or three days when I was a student, and had somehow contrived through bad planning to run out of both food and money. It was unpleasant and somewhat Hamsunesque, but it didn't last very long, and happened more than 30 years ago. So I wouldn't have thought I'd still be scarred by this experience. Strange!

***

Finally got back to this book after an extended vacation reading other stuff... now about two-thirds of the way through. OK, I agree with Jessica: it is quite funny. I think the tone has changed somewhat since the first part. Though my altered perspective may be due to the fact that my eye/ear is now pretty much attuned to the language, which it wasn't at the start. Will have to go back to the beginning when I've finished, and see if I view it differently.

***

Finished. It's a pretty scary book. He spares himself, and the reader, nothing... try as I would, I couldn't detach myself from him, his humiliation and descent into madness. He is completely at the mercy of the world. Most of the time he's hungry and desperate, and that's pretty much all he's feeling. But when he gets drunk, that takes him over too, and during the episode with "Ylajali" he's equally overcome by her.

I realized that, when I was about 15 and seriously into chess, I had in fact met someone rather a lot like him. He sometimes visited my chess club; he was the son of an English aristocrat, but was only interested in playing chess, and had been disinherited. He was in his late 20s, was painfully thin, and always wore exactly the same clothes, jeans and a check shirt. I thought he was kind of glamorous, because he'd played in international events (he hadn't done at all well). He said he couldn't concentrate properly in a chess club, because it was too noisy, and asked if I'd like to come back to his place. He told me he'd play without watching the board, and would kill me. I was intrigued.

I turned up at the address he'd given me. He had a single room in a nasty part of town. The place was filthy and almost bare, except for an unmade bed, a table, and a chair or two. I vividly remember a half-empty bottle of milk standing in one corner; it was thick with mold, and looked as though it had been there at least a month. We played a game; he gave me the white pieces, as well as not looking at the board. I had read up a variation in the King's Indian Defense, and it became clear that he didn't know the theory at all. I won easily, but felt disappointed. I'd rather have been amazed by his erratic talent.

I googled him just now, and find nothing at all after 1974, about a year or so after I played him. I fear the worst. But Knut Hamsun clearly survived, and went on to win the Nobel Prize. It's hard to see how, given that Hunger is supposed to be mostly based on true events, and it's even harder to see how he became a huge supporter of the Nazis. Life is very strange.

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PI脵 CHE IL DOLOR POT脡 IL DIGIUNO



La fame raccontata da Hamsun 猫 molto probabilmente parte di un periodo giovanile della sua vita. Anche se c鈥櫭� da augurarsi mai a queste vette lancinanti.
Ricorda molto l鈥檃stinenza da droga, con quell鈥檃lternanza di massima spossatezza e momenti di crisi violente, rabbiose, allucinate.

Fin qui lo seguo bene, riesco da bravo lettore a sospendere la mia incredulit脿.
E continuo a farlo quando descrive il vomito dopo il primo pasto che segue penosi giorni di digiuno forzato e assoluto. A meno da non voler considerare un pasto il masticare trucioli di legno per combattere la fame.
E continuo a farlo quando descrive follia, pazzia, delirio, alternanza di umori, dal rabbioso al prostrato all鈥檈ntusiasta. Un lungo incubo claustrofobico. Il protagonista narratore 猫 stato giustamente paragonato a un cane randagio nei suoi lunghi vagabondaggi cittadini in preda alla fame e al digiuno.



Faccio invece fatica a sospendere la mia incredulit脿 - anzi, proprio non ci riesco 鈥� quando racconta altri episodi: il bacio della signorina sconosciuta, e tutto gli episodi che la riguardano 鈥� per quanto sia una figura originale e avvincente; il dono alla bottegaia dei soldi che gli restano per combattere il senso di colpa 鈥� convinto d鈥檃ver frodato un commerciante, il protagonista non regge il rimorso; si riesce a seguire bene il pudore che blocca dallo stendere il braccio nel classico gesto dell鈥檃ccattonaggio: ma l鈥檕stinazione di rifiutare ogni offerta per eccesso d鈥檜milt脿 e di vergogna sconfina abbondantemente nell鈥檃bisso della stupidit脿 umana. Tanto pi霉 se i rari tentativi di domandare un prestito o altra forma di sostegno sono tutti rivolti a chi negher脿 ogni aiuto.



Ma soprattutto faccio fatica a mantenere la mia pazienza di lettore con un racconto che ha un鈥檌nfinit脿 di situazioni identiche che si ripetono, una materia letteraria che secondo me sarebbe meglio contenuta in una novella non pi霉 lunga della met脿 di questo breve romanzo. Che nelle sue attuali dimensioni a me risulta alquanto annacquato proprio dal suo reiterarsi.



Tutto ci貌, per貌, non pu貌 annullare quella specie di esplosione che deve essere stata un romanzo su questo argomento centotrenta e passa anni fa, con questo svolgimento, tono, e protagonista. La fame perseguita quest鈥檌o-narrante perch茅 vuole dedicarsi alla scrittura, guadagnare il pane con la sua arte letteraria, e non piegarsi a qualsivoglia occupazione retribuita.
Il suo precipitare nella blasfemia - nonostante nella primissima parte si genufletta per una preghiera di ringraziamento, col crescere della fame bestemmia e insulta e rinnega il suo creatore; lo sprofondare nell鈥檃biezione, spirituale piuttosto che morale 鈥� su questo versante neppure la fame sa iniettargli intraprendenza, sfodera un garbo che tiene lontanissima ogni parvenza di molestia verbale; la scena in cui rosicchia un osso spolpato, tutto questo ne fa una specie di Giobbe senza fede, e rimanda a un certo 鈥渟ottosuolo鈥� dostoevskiano.
Tre stelle e mezzo

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"賮丿毓 丕賱爻禺丕賮丕鬲 噩丕賳亘丕! 兀鬲賯賵賱: 丕賱囟賲賷乇責 丿毓 賴匕丕 丕賱爻禺賮貙 賮兀賳鬲 兀賮賯乇 賲賳 兀賳 賷賰賵賳 賱賰 囟賲賷乇. 兀賳鬲 噩丕卅毓. 賴匕丕 賴賵 丕賳鬲."
亘賴匕賴 丕賱賰賱賲丕鬲 賰丕賳 賷禺丕胤亘 賳賮爻賴 賲賳 丕噩賱 丕賳 賷兀賰賱 賮賯胤. 賵賰賲 賷賰賵賳 氐毓亘丕 丕賳 賷噩鬲賲毓 丕賱噩賵毓 賵丕賱賮賯乇 賲毓 丕賱賰亘乇賷丕亍 賵毓夭丞 丕賱賳賮爻 賵丕賱卮乇賮.
賵賰賱賲丕 鬲賯丿賲鬲 丕賱乇賵丕賷丞 鬲賳丕夭賱 丕賰孬乇 賵兀賰孬乇.
乇賮囟 丕賳 賷爻鬲丿賷賳 丕賵 賷卮丨丿. 賲毓 丕賳賴 賷鬲囟賵乇 噩賵毓丕.
丨鬲賶 丨賱鬲 兀夭賲鬲賴 賵丕賰賱 亘亘毓囟 丕賱賳賯賵丿 丕賱鬲賷 丨氐賱 毓賱賷賴丕 亘噩賴丿賴.
賵賱賰賳 賴匕賴 丕賱賳賯賵丿 丕賳鬲賴鬲 賵毓丕丿 丕賱賶 丕賱噩賵毓 賵賴匕賴 丕賱賲乇丞 丕囟胤乇 丕賳 賷丨丕賵賱 丕賱丕爻鬲丿丕賳丞 賵賱賰賳賴 賷賮卮賱 賵丕賳 賷亘賷毓 丕賻賷 卮賷亍 賵賱丕 賷卮丨丿.
賵賮賽賷 丕賱賲乇丞 丕賱孬丕賱孬丞 賲賳 丕賱噩賵毓 賷囟胤乇 丕賱賶 丕賱卮丨丕匕丞 賵賮賽賷 丕賱賲乇丞 丕賱乇丕亘毓丞 賷囟胤乇 丕賳 賷爻賰鬲 毓賱賶 廿賴丕賳鬲賴 賵卮鬲賷賲鬲賴 .
亘丕賱鬲丿乇賷噩 鬲賳丕夭賱 毓賳 賰亘乇賷丕亍賴 賵卮賲賵禺賴 賵毓夭丞 賳賮爻賴 賮賯胤 賱賷爻丿 乇賲賯賴.

賷爻賷乇 噩丕卅毓丕 賵賱丕 丕丨丿 賷賴鬲賲 丨鬲賶 賲賳 賰丕賳 賷毓乇賮 丕賳賴 噩丕卅毓 賱賲 賷賳馗乇 丕賱賷賴. 賲丕 賴匕賴 丕賱丨囟丕乇丞 丕賱丨丿賷孬丞 丕賱鬲賷 鬲賴鬲賲 亘丕賱丕賳爻丕賳 賵乇賮丕賴賷鬲賴 孬賲 賱丕 鬲毓乇賮 丕賳 賴賳丕賰 噩丕卅毓賷賳 賱丕 賷爻鬲胤賷毓賵賳 丕賳 賷馗賴乇賵丕 匕賱賰.
鬲丨爻亘賴賲 兀睾賳賷丕亍 賲賳 丕賱鬲毓賮賮.
賲賳 丕噩賲賱 賲丕 賯乇兀鬲 賵丕乇賵毓賴丕
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5 stars for me. I wasn鈥檛 prepared for this. I remember a GR friend鈥檚 positive review of the book so I decided to read it. I read it in one sitting. I was mesmerized. The writing 鈥� it is unbelievably good. Crisp, sharp prose.

The author is Norwegian. This was the first novel he got published, and he was 31 at the time (1890). He had had an earlier novella rejected by a publishing house at the age of 20. After the rejection, he then went to a famous Norwegian author for perhaps support/encouragement, Bjornstjerne Bjornson, who after reading the novella advised him to become an actor. During the 11-year interval between his first rejection as a writer and publication of his first novel he worked as a physical laborer in both his home country Norway, and in the United States (two separate trips). During this period he experienced real raw hunger.

When I was reading this novel, I was literally seeing the young man (as far as I can tell his name was not stated once in the novel) slowly dying of starvation (his hair falling out, hollow cheeks, feeling dizzy when looking down onto the street) and for a good part of the time sleeping in cheap boarding houses or out in the elements. He would occasionally meet people, and sometimes they would give him a little money, and it helped stave off his hunger at times鈥ut one time he threw the food right up 鈥� his body was so spent he could not keep food down. And all this time he was writing, and occasionally, just occasionally, getting small pieces of work accepted by the local newspaper editor. But not enough to get out of his state of chronic hunger. I should also say that a surprise to me was the unexpected ending, told on the last page of the book. I didn鈥檛 see it coming.

In the inside cover of the book jacket is this description of the protagonist and I can鈥檛 describe it better than whoever wrote this: 鈥淭he physical privations he undergoes are always secondary to the internal psychology of a man whose faculties are slipping beyond control. Black depression alternates with fantastic mirth, clear reasonableness is suddenly replaced by hallucinations, lassitude by spurts of energy, morbid sensitivity by arrogance and pride.鈥�

At times I was not sure what the protagonist was saying regarding an event or a character was real or whether they were hallucinations, because to me he was losing it (i.e., his sanity) as the novel progressed.

Notes:
鈥� It was first published in the UK in 1899 (Leonard Smithers and Co) and in the US a full 21 years later (Knopf)
鈥�
鈥� Admirers of his craft were many including Thomas Mann, H.G. Wells, Ernest Hemingway, and Isaac Bashevis Singer (who write the Introduction to the edition I read [Farrar. Straus, & Giroux])
鈥� This is a multi-page 鈥渟ummary鈥� of Hamsun鈥檚 life鈥he good, the bad, and the ugly鈥�(i.e., the bad & ugly: Hamsun and his relationship with the Nazis during WWII鈥e actually had a face-to-face meeting with Hitler in 1943, and his wife was imprisoned for her support of the Nazi occupation of Norway during WWII鈥amsun was charged with treason [although there is no evidence he was an anti-Semite]):
鈥� From a blog site:

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" 兀賳鬲 兀賮賯乇 賲賳 兀賳 賷賰賵賳 賱賰 囟賲賷乇貙 兀賳鬲 噩丕卅毓 "

丌賴賺 賲賳 賴匕賴 丕賱乇賵丕賷丞!
亘丐爻貙 賮賯乇貙 噩賵毓貙 丕囟胤乇丕亘貙 賴匕賷丕賳貙 鬲賲乇丿貙 毓賽賳丿貙 賰亘乇賷丕亍貙 丨亘貙 賰乇賴貙 兀賲賱貙 噩賳賵賳... 丨賷賳賲丕 鬲噩鬲賲毓 賰賱 賴匕賴 丕賱賲卮丕毓乇 賵兀賰孬乇 賮賷 卮禺氐賷丞 乇賵丕卅賷丞 賵丕丨丿丞 賮賲賳 丕賱賲爻鬲丨賷賱 兀賳 鬲噩丿 賲丕 鬲鬲丨丿孬 毓賳賴 亘氐丿丿 賴匕賴 丕賱卮禺氐賷丞. 毓賳丿 賴匕丕 丕賱丨丿 鬲鬲噩丕賵夭 賰賵賳賴丕 卮禺氐賷丞 乇賵丕卅賷丞 賵鬲鬲丨賵賱 廿賱賶 卮禺氐賷丞 賵丕賯毓賷丞 鬲丿亘 丕賱丨賷丕丞 賮賷賴丕.

兀乇丕丿 丕賱賰丕鬲亘 兀賳 賷賰卮賮 賰賷賮 兀氐亘丨 丕賱毓丕賱賲 賲賳睾賲爻 賮賷 丕賱賲丕丿賷丕鬲貙 賵賰賷賮 賱賰丕鬲亘 兀賳 賷賳丕賱 賰賱 賴匕丕 丕賱卮賯丕亍 賵丕賱亘丐爻 賮賷 賴匕丕 丕賱毓丕賱賲貙 丨賷孬 賱賲 賷賰賳 丕賱鬲賯丿賷乇 廿賱丕 賱賱賲丕賱.. 賷馗賱 丕賱亘胤賱 賲毓 丕賱噩賵毓 賵丕賱賮賯乇 丕賱賲丿賯毓 賲鬲賲爻賰 亘賰亘乇賷丕卅賴貙 賱賰賳賴 爻賷賳賴丕乇 賮賷 丕賱賳賴丕賷丞.
賲孬賱 賴匕丕 丕賱賳賵毓 賲賳 丕賱乇賵丕賷丕鬲 賷氐毓亘 鬲丨賱賷賱賴 兀賵 丨氐乇賴 賮賷 賰賱賲丕鬲貙 賴匕丕 丕賱賳賵毓 賷賯乇兀 賮賯胤貙 賱賳 鬲鬲賮賴賲 毓馗賲鬲賴 廿賱丕 毓賳丿賲丕 鬲卮毓乇 亘亘丐爻 賵卮賯丕亍 賵丌賱丕賲 丕賱亘胤賱貙 賱丕 亘丿 兀賳 賷賲爻 丕賱賵噩毓 賯賱亘賰貙 賮賲賴賲丕 賯乇兀鬲 毓賳 賴匕賴 丕賱乇賵丕賷丞 賵賮賰乇鬲賴丕 賱賳 鬲卮毓乇 亘賴匕丕 丕賱廿丨爻丕爻 丕賱賲氐丕丨亘 賱賴丕. 賴賳丕賰 丕賱賰孬賷乇賷賳 賱丕 賷丨亘賵賳 賲孬賱 賴匕丕 丕賱賳賵毓 毓丿賷賲 丕賱丨亘賰丞貙 賵賷乇賵賳賴 賲賲賱賸丕貙 賵廿賳 賰賳鬲 賲賳 賴匕賴 丕賱賳賵毓賷丞 亘丕賱鬲兀賰賷丿 賱賳 鬲丨亘 賴匕賴 丕賱乇賵丕賷丞.
"賵賰賳鬲 賮賷 卮丿丞 丕賱噩賵毓 丕賱賴丕卅賱丞貙 賮鬲賳丕賵賱鬲 賯胤毓丞 禺卮亘 賲賳 丕賱胤乇賷賯 兀賱賵賰賴丕 賮賷 賮賲賷貙 賵賯丿 兀賮丕丿鬲賳賷 亘丕賱賮毓賱貙 賮賰賷賮 兀賳賷 賱賲 兀賮賰乇 賮賷賴丕 賲賳 賯亘賱!"

丕賱賰丕鬲亘 賲鬲兀孬乇 亘卮賰賱 賰亘賷乇 噩丿賸丕 亘丕賱兀丿亘 丕賱乇賵爻賷 賵禺丕氐丞賸 丿賵爻鬲賵賷賮賰爻賷貙 賲賳 丨賷孬 丕賱鬲丨賱賷賱 丕賱賳賮爻賷 賱賱卮禺氐賷丞貙 賵鬲氐賵賷乇 丕賱賲卮丕毓乇 亘賴匕賴 丕賱丿賯丞 毓賱賶 丕賱賵乇賯貙 亘丨賷孬 鬲賯鬲賳毓 亘兀賳 丕賱賰丕鬲亘 卮禺氐 亘丕卅爻貙 噩丕卅毓貙 賷鬲丨丿孬 毓賳 賳賮爻賴貙 賵賷氐賮 丕囟胤乇丕亘丕鬲賴.. 賵賲賲丕 爻丕毓丿 毓賱賶 禺賱賯 賴匕丕 丕賱廿丨爻丕爻 兀賳 丕賱爻乇丿 丿丕禺賱賷 毓賱賶 賱爻丕賳 丕賱亘胤賱貙 賵賴匕丕 丕賱賲賵賯賮 賲賳 廿丨丿賶 賳賵亘丕鬲賴 丕賱噩賳賵賳賷丞:
" 賵賲乇鬲 亘賷 毓乇亘丞 鬲爻賷乇 亘亘胤亍貙 賮廿匕丕 賴賷 賲丨賲賱丞 亘丕賱亘胤丕胤丕貙 賮禺胤乇 賱賷 賲賳 卮丿丞 丕賱丨賳賯 賵賱賲噩乇丿 丕賱賲卮丕賰爻丞 賵丕賱毓賳丕丿 賵兀賯賵賱 兀賳 賲丕 毓賱賷賴丕 賱賷爻 亘胤丕胤丕貙 亘賱 賴賵 賲賱賮賵賮. 賵兀賯爻賲鬲 賵兀睾賱馗鬲 丕賱賯爻賲 兀賳賴 賲賱賮賵賮貙 賵爻賲毓鬲 賲賯丕賱賷 賰賱賲丞 賰賱賲丞貙 賵馗賱賱锟斤拷 兀丐賰丿 賴匕丕 丕賱賰匕亘 亘丕賱賯爻賲貙 賵兀賳丕 賵丕毓賺 兀賳賳賷 兀賰匕亘 賵兀賯爻賲貙 賱丕 卮賷亍 廿賱丕 賱兀卮賮賷 睾賱賷賱賸丕 賮賷 賳賮爻賷 亘丕乇鬲賰丕亘 廿孬賲 丕賱賷賲賷賳 丕賱賰丕匕亘丞. 賵兀丨爻爻鬲 亘賳卮賵賷丞 賱廿鬲賷丕賳賷 賴匕丕 丕賱匕賳亘 丕賱匕賷 賱丕 賲孬賷賱 賱賴貙 賮乇賮毓鬲 孬賱丕孬 兀氐丕亘毓 賵兀賯爻賲鬲 亘卮賮鬲賷賳 賲囟胤乇亘鬲賷賳貙 亘丕爻賲 丕賱兀亘 賵丕賱丕亘賳 賵丕賱乇賵丨 丕賱賯丿爻貙 兀賳 賲丕 兀乇丕賴 賴賵 賲賱賮賵賮 賱丕 亘胤丕胤丕 "


丕賱鬲乇噩賲丞 賱丕 亘兀爻 亘賴丕貙 賱賰賳 亘賴丕 亘毓囟 丕賱兀禺胤丕亍 丕賱賱睾賵賷丞.. 賵賵賯毓 丕賱賲鬲乇噩賲 賮賷賲丕 賷賯毓 賮賷賴 兀賰孬乇 丕賱賲鬲乇噩賲賷賳 丕賱丌禺乇賷賳 丨賷賳賲丕 賷丨賵賱賵賳 丕賱賰賱賲丞 毓賳 兀氐賱賴丕 亘睾乇囟 丕賱鬲禺賮賷賮貙 賰賲丕 賮毓賱 爻丕賲賷 丕賱丿乇賵亘賷 賲孬賱丕賸 賵睾賷乇賴貙 丨賷孬 兀氐亘丨 丕賱賰乇賵賳 亘賯丿乇丞 賯丕丿乇 乇賷丕賱! 賱賲 兀賮賴賲 賱賲賻 賱賲賿 賷賰鬲亘賴丕 賰乇賵賳 賰賲丕 賴賷 丕賱毓賲賱丞 丕賱兀氐賱賷丞 賱賱賳乇賵賷噩責 兀賱兀賳 丕賱乇賷丕賱 兀賯乇亘 賱賱賮賴賲 丕賱毓乇亘賷責! 禺胤兀 爻丕匕噩 賲賳 丕賱賲鬲乇噩賲.

乇賵丕賷丞 毓馗賷賲丞 丕賱賲毓賳賶 賵丕賱兀孬乇貙 賲丕 賮毓賱賴 丕賱賰丕鬲亘 賮賷 賴匕賴 丕賱乇賵丕賷丞 賴賵 賴賱賵爻丞 賵賴匕賷丕賳 賵噩賳賵賳 賱丕 賷丨鬲賲賱賴 兀丨丿!
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丕賱賮. 禺蹖賱蹖 毓丕賱蹖 亘賵丿. 賯亘賱丕 賮蹖賱賲 丕賯鬲亘丕爻蹖 丌賳 乇丕 丿蹖丿賴 亘賵丿賲 賵 賮賵賯 丕賱毓丕丿賴 丕蹖賳 賮蹖賱賲 乇丕 丿賵爻鬲 丿丕卮鬲賲 賵 賴賲蹖卮賴 賲蹖鈥屫堌ж池� 乇賲丕賳 丌賳 乇丕 賴賲 亘禺賵丕賳賲. 賴賳蹖賳诏 讴丕乇賱爻賳 讴丕诏乇丿丕賳 賮蹖賱賲 賳丕賲夭丿 賳禺賱 胤賱丕蹖 讴賳 賵 倬乇 丌爻讴丕乇爻賳 亘丕夭蹖诏乇 丌賳 賴賲 亘乇賳丿賴 亘賴鬲乇蹖賳 亘丕夭蹖诏乇 讴賳 1966 賲蹖鈥屫促堎嗀�. 讴鬲丕亘 賵 賮蹖賱賲貙 賴乇 丿賵 乇丕 鬲賵氐蹖賴 賲蹖 讴賳賲.
亘. 丕夭 丕蹖賳 讴鬲丕亘 趩賳丿蹖賳 鬲乇噩賲賴 賵噩賵丿 丿丕乇丿. 賲賳 鬲乇噩賲賴鈥屰� 丕丨賲丿 诏賱卮蹖乇蹖 (賳爻禺賴鈥屰� 趩丕倬蹖) 賵 鬲乇噩賲賴鈥屰� 丿讴鬲乇 睾賱丕賲毓賱蹖 爻蹖丕乇 (賳爻禺賴 倬蹖 丿蹖 丕賮) 乇丕 丿乇 丕禺鬲蹖丕乇 丿丕卮鬲賲 賵 賳爻禺賴鈥屰� 诏賱卮蹖乇蹖 乇丕 禺賵丕賳丿賲. 亘丕 蹖讴 賲賯丕蹖爻賴鈥屰� 讴賵趩讴 亘賴 丕蹖賳 賳鬲丕蹖噩 乇爻蹖丿賲: 鬲乇噩賲賴鈥屰� 爻蹖丕乇 丕賵賱蹖賳 鬲乇噩賲賴 賵 丕夭 賮乇丕賳爻賴 賵 鬲乇噩賲賴鈥屰� 诏賱卮蹖乇蹖 丕夭 丕賳诏賱蹖爻蹖 賴爻鬲. 賴乇 丿賵 賳賮乇 賴賲 賳丕賲 讴鬲丕亘 乇丕 丕夭 芦诏乇爻賳诏蹖禄 亘賴 芦诏乇爻賳賴禄 鬲睾蹖蹖乇 丿丕丿賴鈥屫з嗀� 賵 亘賴 丕蹖賳 賲賵乇丿 丿乇 丕亘鬲丿丕蹖 讴鬲丕亘 丕卮丕乇賴 讴乇丿賴鈥屫з嗀�. 诏賱卮蹖乇蹖 讴鬲丕亘 乇丕 卮讴爻鬲賴 鬲乇噩賲賴 讴乇丿賴 丕爻鬲 賵 丕蹖賳 亘乇丕蹖 賲賳 亘爻蹖丕乇 噩丕蹖 爻賵丕賱 丿丕乇丿 讴賴 趩乇丕 丕蹖賳 胤賵乇 鬲乇噩賲賴 讴乇丿賴 丕爻鬲責 (亘賴 禺丕胤乇 賵賮丕丿丕乇蹖 亘賴 賲鬲賳責 蹖丕...責) 賵賱蹖 爻蹖丕乇 亘賴 乇賵丕賱 賲毓蹖丕乇 鬲乇噩賲賴 讴乇丿賴 丕爻鬲. 丕夭 胤乇賮蹖 鬲乇噩賲賴 诏賱卮蹖乇蹖 爻丕賳爻賵乇 卮丿賴 丕爻鬲 賵賱蹖 鬲乇噩賲賴鈥屰� 爻蹖丕乇 丕蹖賳 胤賵乇 賳蹖爻鬲. 丿乇 亘禺卮 亘毓丿 趩賳丿 鬲讴賴 讴賵趩讴 丕夭 丿賵 鬲乇噩賲賴 賴賲乇丕賴 亘丕 鬲乇噩賲賴 丕賳诏賱蹖爻蹖 乇丕 亘乇丕蹖鬲丕賳 賲蹖鈥屭柏ж辟�.
Hunger (1966)=Sult (1966) 7.8


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鬲賲賵賲 丕鬲賮丕賯鈥屬囏й屰� 讴賴 丕蹖賳噩丕 亘乇丕蹖 賲賳 倬蹖卮 丕賵賲丿賴 賵賯鬲蹖 亘賵丿賴 讴賴 亘丕 卮讴賲 诏乇爻賳賴 鬲賵 讴賵趩賴鈥屬囏� 賵 禺蹖丕亘賵賳鈥屬囏й� 卮賴乇 丕爻賱賵 爻乇诏乇丿賵賳 亘賵丿賴鈥屬�. 讴爻蹖 鬲丕 鬲賵蹖 丕蹖賳 卮賴乇 毓噩蹖亘 賵 睾乇蹖亘 夭賳丿诏蹖 賳讴乇丿賴 亘丕卮賴 賳賲蹖鈥屫堎嗁� 趩賴 噩賴賳賲 丿乇賴鈥屫й� 蹖賴. 氐 9 鬲乇噩賲賴 诏賱卮蹖乇蹖
丕蹖賳 爻乇诏匕卮鬲 蹖丕丿诏丕乇 丿賵乇丕賳蹖 丕爻鬲 讴賴 賲賳 亘丕 卮讴賲 亘賴 倬卮鬲 趩爻亘蹖丿賴 丿乇 卮賴乇 芦讴乇蹖爻鬲蹖丕賳丕禄 丿乇 亘賴 丿乇 賵 丌賵丕乇賴 亘賵丿賲. 賴蹖趩讴爻 賳蹖爻鬲 讴賴 丕夭 丕蹖賳 卮賴乇 毓噩蹖亘 亘乇賵丿 賵 丕孬乇蹖 亘乇 賱賵丨 囟賲蹖乇卮 賳賲丕賳丿. 氐 25 鬲乇噩賲賴 爻蹖丕乇
It was during the time I wandered about and starved in Christiania:
Christiania, this singular city, from which no man departs without carrying
away the traces of his sojourn there. (Translated by George Egerton)
亘蹖乇賵賳 爻丕禺鬲賲賵賳 讴賴 乇爻蹖丿賲貙 賵爻胤 禺蹖丕亘賵賳 丕蹖爻鬲丕丿賲貙 賲卮鬲鈥屬囏з呝� 诏乇賴 讴乇丿賲 賵貙 禺胤丕亘 亘賴 讴丕卅賳丕鬲貙 亘賴 氐丿丕蹖 亘賱賳丿 诏賮鬲賲: 芦 蹖賴 趩蹖夭蹖 亘賴鈥屫堎� 亘诏賲貙 丕蹖賳 丿蹖诏賴 乇賵 賳蹖爻鬲 讴賴 卮賲丕 丿丕乇蹖賳!禄 亘毓丿 亘丕 毓氐亘丕賳蹖鬲 爻乇 鬲讴賵賳 丿丕丿賲 賵 丕夭 賱丕 亘賴 賱丕蹖 丿賳丿賵賳鈥屬囏й� 亘賴 賴賲 賮卮乇丿賴鈥屬呚� 乇賵 亘賴 丕亘乇賴丕貙 诏賮鬲賲: 芦亘賴 賴乇 趩蹖 亘禺賵丕蹖賳 爻賵诏賳丿 賲蹖鈥屫堌辟� 讴賴 丕蹖賳 丿蹖诏賴 乇賵 賳蹖爻鬲 讴賴 卮賲丕 丿丕乇蹖賳!禄 氐賮丨丕鬲 105 賵 106 鬲乇噩賲賴 诏賱卮蹖乇蹖
亘賴 賲丨囟 亘蹖乇賵賳 丌賲丿賳 賲蹖丕賳 讴賵趩賴 丕蹖爻鬲丕丿賴 賲卮鬲鈥屬囏� 乇丕 诏乇賴 賲蹖鈥屭┵嗁� 賵 亘賴 氐丿丕蹖 乇爻丕 賲蹖鈥屭堐屬� 芦丕蹖 禺丿丕賵賳丿 亘禺卮賳丿賴鈥屰� 賲賴乇亘丕賳! 賲蹖鈥屫辟堎� 賴賲賴 噩丕 噩丕乇 賲蹖鈥屭┴促� 讴賴 鬲賵 丿賱賯讴蹖 亘蹖卮 賳蹖爻鬲蹖!禄 丌賳诏丕賴 爻乇賲 乇丕 乇賵 亘賴 丕亘乇賴丕 讴乇丿賴 鬲讴丕賳 賲蹖鈥屫囐� 賵 亘丕 丿賳丿丕賳鈥屬囏й� 賮卮乇丿賴 賵 禺卮賲诏蹖賳 賮乇蹖丕丿 賲蹖鈥屫操嗁呚� 夭亘丕賳賲 賱丕賱 鬲賵 丿賱賯讴蹖 亘蹖卮 賳蹖爻鬲蹖! 氐 146 鬲乇噩賲賴 爻蹖丕乇
When I got outside, I came to a standstill and said loudly in the open street,
as I clenched my hands: "I will tell you one thing, my good Lord God, you
are a bungler!" and I nod furiously, with set teeth, up to the clouds; "I will
be hanged if you are not a bungler." (Translated by George Egerton)
丿蹖诏賴 亘賴 丕賵賳 卮賵乇蹖 卮賵乇 賴賲 讴賴 丿蹖诏乇賵賳 禺蹖丕賱 賲蹖鈥屭┵嗁� 賳蹖爻鬲. 賴賲賵賳 胤賵乇 丕賵賳噩丕 诏乇賮鬲賴 亘賵丿 賳卮爻鬲賴 亘賵丿. 賴蹖趩 讴丿丕賲 丕夭 賲丕 丨乇賮蹖 賳賲蹖鈥屫藏屬�. 氐丿丕蹖 囟乇亘丕賳 賯賱亘卮賵 賲蹖鈥屫促嗃屫呚� 氐丿丕蹖 囟乇亘丕賳 賯賱亘 丕賵賳賵 賵 禺賵丿賲賵 讴賴 丨讴賲 氐丿丕蹖 倬丕蹖 丕爻亘賵 丿丕卮鬲... 丿蹖诏賴 賳賲蹖鈥屫堎嗀池� 趩賴 讴丕乇 讴賳賲貙 丨乇賮鈥屬囏й� 倬乇鬲 賵 倬賱丕蹖蹖 夭丿賲 讴賴 丕賵賳 禺賳丿賴鈥屫� 诏乇賮鬲... 氐賮丨丕鬲 198 賵 199 鬲乇噩賲賴 诏賱卮蹖乇蹖
丕賵 丌乇丕賲 賵 賲毓氐賵賲 趩卮賲鈥屬囏� 乇丕 賮乇賵 亘爻鬲賴 賵 丿乇 噩丕蹖 禺賵丿 賳卮爻鬲賴 亘賵丿. 賴蹖趩 蹖讴 爻禺賳蹖 賳賲蹖鈥屭佖屬�. 丌賳诏丕賴 亘丕 禺卮賵賳鬲 丿乇 丌睾賵卮卮 诏乇賮鬲賲 賵 賮卮乇丿賲 賵 亘丿賳賲 乇丕 乇賵蹖 爻蹖賳賴鈥屫ж� 趩爻亘丕賳丿賲貙 賵賱蹖 讴賵趩讴鬲乇蹖賳 丕毓鬲乇丕囟蹖 賳讴乇丿. 氐丿丕蹖 囟乇亘丕賳 賯賱亘 禺賵丿賲 賵 丕賵貙 賴乇 丿賵 乇丕貙 賲蹖鈥屫促嗃屫�. 賲丕賳賳丿 丕爻亘蹖 讴賴 趩賴丕乇 賳毓賱 亘鬲丕夭丿 賯賱亘賲丕賳 賲蹖鈥屫藏�. 丿乇 丌睾賵卮 讴卮蹖丿賲 賵 亘賵爻蹖丿賲卮. 丕亘丿丕 亘丕賵乇 賳賲蹖鈥屭┴必� 讴賴 丕蹖賳 賲賳賲 讴賴 趩賳蹖賳 讴丕乇蹖 賲蹖鈥屭┵嗁�. 趩賳丿 讴賱賲賴鈥屰� 賳丕賲乇亘賵胤 丕夭 丿賴丕賳賲 亘蹖乇賵賳 丌賲丿 賵 丕賵 亘賴 禺賳丿賴 丕賮鬲丕丿. 賲讴乇乇 丿乇 賲讴乇乇 亘賵爻蹖丿賲卮. 诏賵賳賴鈥屫ж� 乇丕 賳賵丕夭卮 讴乇丿賲 賵 丿乇 诏賵卮卮 爻禺賳丕賳 毓丕卮賯丕賳賴 禺賵丕賳丿賲. 丿賵 丿讴賲賴鈥屰� 亘丕賱丕蹖 賳蹖賲鈥屫嗁団€屫ж� 乇丕 亘丕夭 讴乇丿賲 倬爻鬲丕賳鈥屬囏й屫� 丕夭 夭蹖乇 倬蹖乇丕賴賳 賴賲趩賵賳 丿賵 卮丕賴賵丕乇 賳賲丕蹖丕賳 卮丿賳丿. 倬乇爻蹖丿賲 丕噩丕夭賴 賴爻鬲 賳诏丕賴 讴賳賲責 氐 258 鬲乇噩賲賴 爻蹖丕乇
She sat quite quietly, and still kept her eyes closed; neither of us spoke. I
crushed her fiercely to me, pressed her body greedily against my breast, and
she spoke never a word. I heard her heart's beat, both hers and mine; they sounded like hurrying hoof beats. I kissed her. I no longer knew myself. I uttered some nonsense, that she laughed at, whispered pet names into her mouth, caressed her cheek, kissed her many times.... (Translated by George Egerton).
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賮賷 亘丿丕賷丕鬲 賯乇丕卅鬲賶 匕賴亘 賮賰乇賶 廿賱賶 乇賵丕賷丞 丕賱賮賯乇丕亍 賱丿賵爻鬲賵賷賮爻賰賶 廿賱賶 丕賱亘胤賱 丕賱匕賶 賱賲 賷賰賳 賷賲鬲賱賰 爻賵賶 丕賱賯賱賷賱 賱賰賳賴 賷毓胤賷 賲賳 賷噩丿賴 賲丨鬲丕噩丕 丨鬲賶 賱賵 丕囟胤乇 丕賳 賷鬲丿丕賷賳 丕賵 賷乇賴賳 兀卮賷丕亍賴 賵賷卮毓乇 亘丕賱丨夭賳 賵丕賱毓噩夭 丨賷賳 賱丕 賷爻鬲胤賷毓 丕賳 賷毓胤賶 丕賱賲丨鬲丕噩 卮賷卅丕 賮亘胤賱 乇賵丕賷丞 丕賱噩賵毓 賷卮亘賴賴 賮賶 賴匕賴 丕賱賳賯胤丞 賮賴丕 賴賵 賷匕賴亘 賱賷乇賴賳 氐丿乇賷鬲賴 賱賷爻丕毓丿 乇噩賱丕 賲丨鬲丕噩丕 乇睾賲 丕賳賴 賱丕 賷賲賱賰 丕賶 卮卅 . 賰賲丕 丕賳賶 卮毓乇鬲 丕丨賷丕賳丕 賰賲丕 賱賵 丕賳 丕賱亘胤賱 賮賶 賴匕賷丕賳賴 賵賲毓丕賳丕鬲賴 賵丕賮賰丕乇賴 賷卮亘賴 卮禺氐賷丕鬲 丿賵爻鬲賵賷賮爻賰賶 賲孬賱 賮賶 丕丨丿 丕賱賲賵丕賯賮 匕賰乇賳賷 亘鬲禺亘胤 亘胤賱 丕賱噩乇賷賲丞 賵丕賱毓賯丕亘 .



孬賲 匕賰乇賳賷 賮賷 賲毓丕賳丕鬲賴 賲毓 丕賱噩賵毓 賵亘丨孬賴 毓賳 賲賰丕賳 賷丐賵賷賴 亘乇賵丕賷丞 賲鬲卮乇丿丕 亘賷賳 亘丕乇賷爻 賵賱賳丿賳 賱噩賵乇噩 丕賵乇賷賱 丕賱鬲賶 賱丕 丕匕賰乇 鬲賮丕氐賷賱賴丕 賱賰賳 兀匕賰乇 丕賳賴丕 賲賳 丕賱乇賵丕賷丕鬲 丕賱賲乇賴賯丞 賮賶 賯乇丕卅鬲賴丕 . 賵賴賳丕 賰丕賳 賵氐賮賴 賱丨丕賱鬲賴 乇亘賲丕 賷賰賵賳 丕爻賵兀




丕賱乇賵丕賷丞 賮賷 睾丕賱亘賴丕 賲丕毓丿丕 亘毓囟 丕賱丨賵丕乇丕鬲 丕賱噩丕賳亘賷丞 賲毓 亘毓囟 丕賱兀卮禺丕氐 丕賱匕賷賳 賷賱鬲賯賷賴賲 爻乇丿賷丞 賵丨賵丕乇 丿丕禺賱賷 亘賷賳 亘胤賱 丕賱乇賵丕賷丞 賵賳賮爻賴 賷丨賰賶 亘賴丕 毓賳 賲毓丕賳丕鬲賴 丕賱賳賮爻賷丞 賵丕賱噩爻丿賷丞 賵賲丨丕賵賱丕鬲賴 丕賱亘丕卅爻丞 賮賶 丕賱鬲睾賱亘 毓賱賶 丕賱噩賵毓 賵丕賱丨氐賵賱 毓賱賶 賲丕賷爻丿 乇賲賯賴 賵毓賱賶 賲賰丕賳 賷賳丕賲 亘賴 . 賮亘胤賱 丕賱乇賵丕賷丞 賴賵 卮丕亘 賷毓鬲賲丿 毓賱賶 賰鬲丕亘丞 丕賱賲賯丕賱丕鬲 賱賰爻亘 賯賵鬲 賷賵賲賴 貙 丕丨賷丕賳丕 賷賳噩丨 賮賶 匕丕賰 賱賷丨氐賱 毓賱賶 賯賱賷賱 賲賳 丕賱賲丕賱 賷鬲賯賵鬲 亘賴 賯賱賷賱丕 賯亘賱 丕賳 賷毓賵丿 賱丨丕賱丞 丕賱賮賯乇 丕賱賲丿賯毓 賵丕賱噩賵毓 賮丕賱賳賯賵丿 鬲鬲賱丕卮賶 爻乇賷毓丕 賱賷毓賵丿 賵賷丨丕賵賱 丕賳 賷賰鬲亘 卮賷卅丕 乇亘賲丕 賷賵丕賮賯 兀丨丿 毓賱賶 賳卮乇賴 . 賱賰賳 賮賶 丕賱睾丕賱亘 賰丕賳鬲 賲賯丕賱丕鬲賴 賷鬲賲 乇賮囟賴丕 賮賰賲丕 賯賷賱 賱賴 匕丕鬲 賲乇丞 " 賱丕卮賰 丕賳 賰賱 賲丕鬲賰鬲亘賴 賷賰賱賮賰 賰孬賷乇丕 賲賳 丕賱噩賴賵丿 貙 睾賷乇 丕賳賰 毓賳賷賮 噩丿丕 鬲賱鬲賴亘 丨賲丕爻丞 賮賷 賰鬲丕亘丕鬲賰 貙 賵賱賷鬲賰 鬲毓丿賱 賯賱賷賱丕 .賮賶 賰鬲丕亘丕鬲賰 丨賲丕爻丞 兀卮亘賴 亘丕賱丨賲賷 "
賵丕丨賷丕賳丕 賷噩丿 賲賰丕賳 賷賳丕賲 亘賴 丕賵 賷馗賱 賷丿賵乇 賮賶 丕賱卮賵丕乇毓 賵賷賱鬲丨賮 丕賱乇氐賷賮 .

" 賰賳鬲 賮賷 卮丿丞 丕賱噩賵毓 丕賱賴丕卅賱丞 賮鬲賳丕賵賱鬲 賯胤毓丞 禺卮亘 賲賳 丕賱胤乇賷賯 兀賱賵賰賴丕 賮賷 賮賲賷 .賵賯丿 丕賮丕丿鬲賳賷 亘丕賱賮毓賱 貙 賮賰賷賮 兀賳賷 賱賲 兀賮賰乇 賮賷賴丕 賲賳 賯亘賱 !"


賰丕賳 丕賱噩賵毓 賱丕賷丐孬乇 亘賴 噩爻丿賷丕 賮賯胤 賱賰賳 毓賯賱賷丕 丕賷囟丕 賰丕賳 賷丿賮毓賴 丕丨賷丕賳丕 丕賱賶 丕賱賴匕賷丕賳 賵兀丨賷丕賳丕 廿賱賶 丕賱禺賷丕賱 賵兀賵賯丕鬲 兀禺乇賶 賰丕賳 賷噩毓賱賴 賷乇睾亘 賮賷 廿賷匕丕亍 丕賱兀禺乇賷賳 賱賰賳賴 賰丕賳 賱丕賷賱亘孬 賵丕賳 賷鬲乇丕噩毓 賵賷賱賵賲 賳賮爻賴 . 噩賵毓 賷噩毓賱賴 賷賯賳胤 賲賳 乇丨賲賴 丕賱賱賴 賵賷鬲賮賵賴 亘賰賱賲丕鬲 睾丕囟亘丞 賲賳 卮丿丞 賷兀爻賴 賵囟毓賮賴 " 廿賳 賲丕賯賱鬲賴 賱賲 賷賰賳 廿賱丕 賰賱丕賲丕 賮丕乇睾丕 賱丕 胤丕卅賱 賮賷賴 ! 賱賲 賷賰賳 廿賱丕 賰賱丕賲丕 賮丕乇睾丕 匕丕賰 丕賱匕賷 丨丕賵賱鬲 亘賴 丕賱鬲毓亘賷乇 毓賳 兀毓賲丕賯 賲兀爻丕鬲賷 " 賵 賰丕賳 賷賲卮賶 賰孬賷乇丕 賷丨丕丿孬 賳賮爻賴
" 賯賱鬲 賲禺丕胤亘丕 賳賮爻賷 : 賴賱丕 爻乇鬲 賲毓賷 賯賱賷賱丕 廿賱賶 丕賱賲賷賳丕亍 責 賴匕丕 丕匕丕 賰丕賳 賱丿賷賰 賵賯鬲 ! "

" 賵丕丿乇賰鬲 丕賳賶 兀爻乇丨 賮賷 毓丕賱賲 丕賱禺賷丕賱 .. 兀丿乇賰鬲 匕賱賰 丨鬲賶 賯亘賱 兀賳 丕賳鬲賴賷 賲賳 賲賳丕噩丕丞 賳賮爻賷 . 賱賯丿 賰丕賳 禺亘賱賷 賳丕鬲噩丕 毓賳 賴匕賷丕賳 丕賱囟毓賮 賵丕賱賴夭丕賱 貙 賵賲毓 匕賱賰 賱賲 兀賮賯丿 乇卮丿賷 "


賰丕賳 賷鬲賲賳賶 丕賳 賷卮毓乇 亘賴 賵亘丨丕噩鬲賴 賵賮賯乇賴 賵噩賵毓賴 兀丨丿 丿賵賳 丕賳 賷囟胤乇 賱賱鬲匕賱賱 賵丕賱胤賱亘 賲賳 丕賱丌禺乇賷賳 . 賰丕賳 賷賲鬲賱賰 賰亘乇賷丕亍 賮賶 丕賱亘丿丕賷丞 賷噩毓賱賴 賷鬲乇丿丿 賰孬賷乇丕 賯亘賱 胤賱亘 兀賶 賲毓賵賳丞 賵賷卮毓乇 亘丕賱禺噩賱 賵 丕賱禺夭賶 丕匕丕 胤賱亘 賲毓賵賳丞 賲賳 兀丨丿 賵乇賮囟 胤賱亘賴 " 兀賮賱賲 兀夭賱 亘丿賵賳 賰爻乇丞 禺亘夭 兀爻鬲胤賷毓 丿爻賴丕 賮賷 賮賲賷 責 賵賰賱 賲丕 亘賱睾鬲賴 兀賳賷 兀氐亘丨鬲 兀鬲賯夭夭 賲賳 賳賮爻賷 "
賵賴丕賴賵 賮賶 兀丨丿 丕賱賲乇丕鬲 賷賰丕丿 賷胤賱亘 賲丕賱丕 賲賳 乇卅賷爻 丕賱鬲丨乇賷乇 賲賯丿賲丕 賱賲賯丕賱丞 賰鬲亘賴丕 賱賰賳賴 鬲乇丕噩毓 毓賳 丕賱胤賱亘 孬賲 兀禺匕 賷丐賳亘 賳賮爻賴 賵賷毓匕亘賴丕 賵賷賴賷賳賴丕
" 兀賳 鬲噩乇賷 兀賷賴丕 丕賱賰賱亘 丕賱鬲毓爻 丕賱賶 丕丨丿 丕賱賳丕爻 貙 賵鬲禺賲卮賴 賮賷 毓賷賳賴 丕賵 鬲賰丕丿 貙 賱丕賳賰 鬲胤賲毓 賮賷 乇賷丕賱 貙 賴匕丕 賵丨賯 丕賱賱賴 兀丨胤 賵兀爻賮賱 賲丕 爻賲毓鬲 亘賴 ! 賴賷丕 丕賲卮 ! 兀爻乇毓 ! 兀爻乇毓 兀賷賳丕 丕賱賵睾丿 賮爻賵賮 兀乇賷賰 "



賵賱賰賳 賲丕匕丕 爻賷賮毓賱 責 賵賰賷賮 爻賷毓賷卮 責 賴賱 爻賷爻鬲胤賷毓 丕賱丕爻鬲賲乇丕乇 賴賰匕丕 責 丕賲 丕賳 噩賵毓賴 爻賷噩毓賱賴 賷乇囟禺 賵賷匕賱 賵賷賮毓賱 賲丕賱賲 賷賰賳 賷鬲賵賯毓 丕賳 賷賮毓賱賴 責 賵賴賱 爻賷賱鬲賯賷 賷賵賲丕 卮禺氐丕 賷卮毓乇 亘賴 賵賷丨賳賵 毓賱賷賴 丕賲 爻賷馗賱 賷鬲毓匕亘 責

乇賵丕賷丞 氐毓亘丞 毓賱賶 丕賱賳賮爻 貙 賲毓丕賳丕丞 鬲噩毓賱賰 鬲賯賮 賵鬲賮賰乇 賰孬賷乇丕 貙 丕賱噩賵毓 賵丕賱兀賱賲 賵丕賱鬲賯夭夭 賲賳 丕賱賳賮爻 賵丕賱廿丨爻丕爻 亘丕賱匕賱 賵丕賱囟毓賮 賵賯賱丞 丕賱丨賷賱丞 .

賲毓 乇賵丕賷丞 賰賴匕賴 丕乇睾亘 賮賶 丕賳賴丕亍 丕賱丨丿賷孬 毓賳賴丕 亘兀賳 兀賯賵賱
丕賱丨賲丿 賱賱賴 丿丕卅賲丕 賵丕亘丿丕 . 丕賱丨賲丿 賱賱賴 毓賱賶 賰賱 賳毓賲賴 .
丕賱賱賴賲賻賾 廿賳賷 兀毓賵匕購 亘賰 賲賳 夭賵丕賱賽 賳賽毓賲鬲賽賰貙 賵鬲丨賵購賾賱賽 毓丕賮賷鬲賽賰貙 賵賮購噩丕亍賻丞 賳賽賯賲鬲賽賰貙 賵噩賲賷毓賽 爻購禺胤賽賰. 丕賱賱賴賲 廿賳 卮賰乇賰 賳毓賲丞貙 鬲爻鬲丨賯 丕賱卮賰乇貙 賮毓賱賾賲賳賷 賰賷賮 兀卮賰乇賰 貙 丕賱丨賲丿 賱賱賴 賰賲丕 賷賳亘睾賶 賱噩賱丕賱 賵噩賴賰 賵毓馗賷賲 爻賱胤丕賳賰

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"A莽l谋k iflah谋m谋 kesiyordu; 枚lmeyi, yok olmay谋 枚zledim, duyguland谋m, a臒lad谋m." (s.52)

A莽l谋臒谋 derinden hissettiren, a莽ken okunmamas谋n谋 tavsiye etti臒im ger莽ekten etkileyici bir kitap. Karakterimizin yaln谋zca fizyolojik olarak a莽l谋k hissini de臒il, ayn谋 zamanda ya艧ad谋臒谋 ruhsal gelgitleri de son derece ba艧ar谋l谋 tasvir etmi艧 Hamsun. Zaten Hamsun'un en etkileyici ve ba艧ar谋l谋 eseri olarak kabul edilen kitab谋n karanl谋kla bo臒u艧ma sahnesi kesinlikle efsane nitelikte:

"Fakat uyuyamad谋m. Bir zaman yatt谋臒谋m yerden karanl谋臒谋; kavrayamad谋臒谋m, u莽suz bucaks谋z ve kal谋n karanl谋k kitlesini seyrettim. Akl谋ma s谋臒d谋ram谋yordum karanl谋臒谋. B眉t眉n 枚l莽眉lerin 眉st眉nde bir karanl谋kt谋 bu; yak谋nl谋臒谋 alt谋nda eziliyordum. G枚zlerimi kapad谋m, yar谋 sesli bir 艧ark谋 tutturdum, oyalanmak i莽in yata臒a uzand谋m, fakat bo艧una! Karanl谋k, zihnimi kavram谋艧, beni bir an olsun kendi halime b谋rakm谋yordu. Ya i莽inde erir, karanl谋臒a kar谋艧谋r, gidersem? Yatakta do臒ruldum, kollar谋m谋 sa臒a sola savurdum." (s.57)

Karanl谋臒谋n i莽inde yitip gitmi艧 Hamsun'a selamlar olsun.

M.B.

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韦蠋蟻伪 魏伪蟿维位伪尾伪 伪蟺蠈 蟺慰蠀 尉蔚魏委谓畏蟽伪谓 蠈位伪.
螌位慰喂 慰喂 螝维蠁魏伪 魏伪喂 慰喂 危蟿维喂谓渭蟺蔚魏 魏伪喂 慰喂 围苇渭喂谓纬慰蠀蔚喂, 伪位位维 魏伪喂 慰喂 螠蟺维蟽蔚尾喂蟿蟼 - 危委谓纬魏蔚蟻 魏伪喂 慰喂 螤伪渭慰蠉魏, 蠈位慰喂 蠂蟻蠅蟽蟿维谓蔚 魏维蟿喂 蟽蔚 伪蠀蟿蠈 蟿慰 渭喂魏蟻蠈 尾喂尾位喂伪蟻维魏喂.
螖蔚谓 胃伪 纬蟻维蠄蠅 "蟽蠀纬魏位慰谓喂蟽蟿喂魏蠈", "伪蟻喂蟽蟿慰蠀蟻纬畏渭伪蟿喂魏蠈", "蟺蟻蠅蟿慰蟺慰蟻喂伪魏蠈" 魏伪喂 维位位伪 蟿苇蟿慰喂伪, 未蔚 谓慰渭委味蠅 蠈蟿喂 蠂蟻蔚喂维味蔚蟿伪喂.
螡伪 蟺蠅 渭蠈谓慰 蠈蟿喂 蟽伪谓 尾喂尾位喂蠈蠁喂位慰蟼, 蟻委蠂谓蠅 渭慰渭蠁萎 蟽蟿慰谓 蔚伪蠀蟿蠈 渭慰蠀 蟺慰蠀 未蔚谓 蟿慰 蔚委蠂伪 未喂伪尾维蟽蔚喂 蟺慰位蠉 谓蠅蟻委蟿蔚蟻伪.
螝伪喂 蠁蠀蟽喂魏维 蟺蟻慰蟿蔚委谓蠅 蟽蔚 蠈位慰蠀蟼 谓伪 蟿慰 未慰蠀谓 维渭蔚蟽伪.
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June 4, 2024
In a series of very fortunate events, I鈥檝e secured a short-term sublet from an associate professor in the Romance Studies Department of a North Carolina university.

It鈥檚 a small apartment in an older building, but it鈥檚 bursting with love and intention. The full height and breadth of one living room wall is lined with bookshelves, abounding in novels and works on theory I wouldn鈥檛 have discovered on my own. There are raw bamboo tables and smart lightbulbs that adjust to my mood, a stack of Portuguese CDs and another of very good vinyl. There鈥檚 a royal blue couch that feels like butter and an abundance of flowers and plants, some living, others dried and hung. There are TWO coffee makers: one for espresso, one for regular brew, and a powerful frothing tool for my milk. *dirty!* Last but not least, there鈥檚 a chalk board in the kitchen, upon which Prof茅 artfully inscribed, 鈥淲elcome home, Sarah.鈥�

Every inch of my temporary abode is designed for comfort and nurture, with the exception of a few selfish neighbors who are undoubtedly chain smoking in this non-smoking building: I smell every exhale. Stinkers aside, with an apartment full of new-to-me books and music, I鈥檓 a kid in a candy store. I鈥檇 listen and read all day long if life would let me.

The first novel I pulled from the shelves do professor rom芒ntico is one you鈥檝e probably read. Hunger features heavily on college reading lists, but it was never on mine, so this is my first encounter. And dear God, what an encounter it鈥檚 been.

The protagonist 鈥� an unnamed, starving artist - is a walking contradiction, as are we all. One moment, he sells the clothes off his back to feed a bum who鈥檚 hardly worse off than himself, the next he passes a woman on the street and feels compelled 鈥溾€o follow her and hurt her in some way鈥� (p. 11).

As food deprivation escalates, so do the wild mood swings:

鈥淚 was drunk with starvation, my hunger had made me intoxicated鈥� (p.56).

鈥淢y mind was suffering a complete transformation, a tissue in my brain had snapped鈥� (p.42).

"I break my pencil between my teeth, jump up, tear my manuscript to bits, every single sheet, toss my hat in the gutter and trample it" (p.190).


These manic displays sparked a 鈥渃hicken or egg鈥� debate in me: is our leading man starving because he has unaddressed mental health issues, or does he have mental health issues because he鈥檚 starving? There鈥檚 evidence for the former, including his inexplicable practice of giving money away the second he gets it, rather than budgeting toward his own survival. Self-sabotage much?

I was surprised to learn 鈥� halfway through the book 鈥� it鈥檚 semi-autobiographical. Knut Hamsun was indeed a starving artist, and he loosely based this book on his own experience of going hungry while gaining a foothold in the world of publishing. This knowledge didn鈥檛 alter my reading experience, but it did add a fun narrative meta-layer.

Note: At the end of this season, I鈥檒l compile a gift for the good professor: a hand-bound book of reviews sprung from his beautiful shelves. Thank you, kind sir, for trusting me with your home, your town, your art.

Book/Song Pairing (plucked from prof茅鈥檚 collection):
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This powerful work of writing by Knut Hamsun, clearly lets you think what the state of 鈥榟耻苍驳别谤鈥� can do to a human being. Yes, by 鈥榟耻苍驳别谤鈥�, the author does really refer to the state of starvation in the absence of food. This idea of 鈥榟耻苍驳别谤鈥�, which looks like just another figure when it makes its appearance in one鈥檚 view in the form of some statistics, something which the well-to do people cannot even imagine about, is the essential sketch of this extremely thought provoking work by Hamsun.

Telling us about a young writer, who isn鈥檛 making much in terms of money, the author exceptionally explains what 鈥榟耻苍驳别谤鈥� can do even to the mind of a well educated person. The struggle of the young writer, while going on without bread for days at a stretch, is displayed here in a bone chilling manner. Sometimes, it drives the poor soul into delirium. He plunges into imagining things and events, talking to himself, inventing new words or furiously trying to work over a new idea for a story or a piece of writing so as to be able to sell it to a newspaper to earn some crones. Sometimes, when overpowered by hunger, he also tries to frighten people and to mock them. This gives him an outlet and a momentarily refuge from the agonizing pain inside. Though he soon recovers his senses and reproaches himself for doing such things.

He keeps looking for a job but doesn鈥檛 succeed. One by one he pawns every thing that belongs to him to get some crones for food till at last, he is just left with a blanket and the clothes that he wears everyday.

His struggle makes something inside you break. You feel a sense of anger growing inside for not being able to help that feeble, slowly decaying person. More so when he is wet from sleeping on a bench and extremely cold. But what really fills you with anxiety is that the poor man, though almost broke, plunging into the state of hunger every now and then and never once sleeping on a full stomach, still exhibits a strong moral character. He, perhaps because of pride, doesn鈥檛 tell anyone about his state of condition. Once, when he is given some exchange money accidentally by a shopkeeper, the weight of those coins in his pocket keep weighing upon his conscience. Till at last, he gives that money to a cake seller voluntarily and goes penniless again. It makes you more anxious. What was he trying to prove? Can anyone imagine parting from the last meagre sum of money when one is already hungry for some 3-4 days and literally dying of starvation? Would I ever do the same if I ever was in same condition? Sitting comfortably in my chair, surrounded by material things which provide a sense of security, I will perhaps answer 鈥榶es鈥�. But what, if otherwise? It is too dreadful even to imagine that.

Here the author succeeded in shaking me hard and let me to think what this feeling of 鈥榟耻苍驳别谤鈥� could do to poor, illiterate persons? People who haven鈥檛 got the faculty of thinking and whose conscience doesn鈥檛 bother them? Wouldn鈥檛 it make thieves, murderers and vilest creatures out of them?

Thinking such led me to ponder upon another form of 鈥榟耻苍驳别谤鈥�, a 鈥榟耻苍驳别谤鈥� of acknowledgement, of empathy, of the feeling of being understood and loved and cared for. What if this necessity to be understood by someone, to be able to talk to someone and to express one鈥檚 innermost feelings is suppressed by the pressure of earning a living, by the load of expectations of people around, by the every day鈥檚 struggle to assert an existence in the world? What all can happen then? Perhaps, it can lead to a state of insanity or perhaps the person, intoxicated by the fever of these pressures; succumb to one moment鈥檚 whim hence by turning into a vile character. Aren鈥檛 a large number of crimes that we witness, somehow a result of this 鈥榟耻苍驳别谤鈥�?

Towards the end, even our virtuous hero, succumb to unbearable hunger and harasses the same cake seller for some cakes, which he could eat and thus satisfy his hunger. His salvation comes in the end when he gets a job at a ship which is about to sail soon.

Does the author gives hope toward the end or does he place a big question mark before us? I would let you to ponder upon that. But it is definitely not one easy read. It engrossed me into reading it in single sitting and didn't let me even budge or take my eyes off awhile. Its style reminded me of Dostoevsky鈥檚 鈥淐rime and Punishment鈥� and hence made a lasting impression upon me.

Highly recommended!
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丕蹖賳賴丕 賵 讴鬲丕亘 诏乇爻賳诏蹖 鬲氐賵乇賲 丕夭 诏乇爻賳賴 亘賵丿賳 乇賵 讴丕賲賱丕 亘賴 趩丕賱卮 讴卮蹖丿. 亘賴 禺氐賵氐 鬲賵蹖 诏乇爻賳诏蹖貙 亘丕 讴賱蹖 爻賵丕賱 丕禺賱丕賯蹖 賲賵丕噩賴 卮丿賲. 賲孬賱丕 賵賯鬲蹖 丕夭 诏乇爻賳诏蹖 丿乇丨丕賱 賲乇诏 賴爻鬲蹖貙 丿夭丿蹖 讴乇丿賳 丕夭 蹖賴 丌丿賲 賮賯蹖乇 賲孬賱 禺賵丿鬲 趩賯丿乇 亘蹖 丕禺賱丕賯蹖賴責 蹖丕 丕蹖賳讴賴 趩賯丿乇 賲蹖卮賴 鬲賵蹖 丕蹖賳 卮乇丕蹖胤 亘賴 賵噩丿丕賳 賵賮丕丿丕乇 亘賵丿 賵 丿乇賵睾 賳诏賮鬲責 賲賳 賮讴乇 賲蹖讴賳賲 鬲賵蹖 丕蹖賳 卮乇丕蹖胤貙 丕禺賱丕賯鈥屬呚ж� 亘賵丿賳 丿蹖賵賵賳诏蹖賴. 賴賲賵賳 胤賵乇 讴賴 賯賴乇賲丕賳 亘蹖 賳丕賲 丕蹖賳 丿丕爻鬲丕賳 賴賲 亘賴 賳賵毓蹖 丿蹖賵丕賳賴 亘賵丿.
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丕蹖賳 乇賲丕賳 禺蹖賱蹖 亘蹖 賳丕賲 賵 賳卮丕賳賴貙 丕賲丕 丕孬乇 賲賴賲蹖 鬲賵蹖 丕丿亘蹖丕鬲 毓賴 賵 丕賱賴丕賲 亘禺卮 賳賵蹖爻賳丿诏丕賳 亘夭乇诏賴. 鈥屫ㄘ必й� 丕賷賳讴賴 亘鬲賵賳蹖丿 賲賯丕蹖爻賴 讴賳蹖丿貙 丕蹖賳 讴鬲丕亘 丿丕爻鬲丕賳蹖 卮亘蹖賴 噩賳丕蹖鬲 賵 賲讴丕賮丕鬲 賵 蹖丕 賲爻禺 丿丕乇賴. 亘賴 胤賵乇 噩丿蹖 倬蹖卮賳賴丕丿 賲蹖讴賳賲 亘禺賵賳蹖丿卮. 亘蹖 賳賴丕蹖鬲 乇賵丕賳卮賳丕爻丕賳賴 賵 丿賯蹖賯 诏乇爻賳诏蹖 乇賵 鬲丨賱蹖賱 讴乇丿賴. 賲賵賳賵賱賵诏 賴丕蹖 卮丕賴讴丕乇 夭蹖丕丿蹖 丿丕乇賴 讴賴 賲胤賳毓賳賲 亘丕毓孬 賲蹖卮賴 亘丕 丌賯丕蹖 诏乇爻賳賴 賴賲匕丕鬲 倬賳丿丕乇蹖 讴賳蹖丿. 丌賴 乇賵丨 丌賯丕蹖 賴丕賲爻賵賳 亘丕蹖丿 亘乇丕蹖 丕蹖賳 乇蹖賵蹖賵賵 亘賴賲 倬賵賱 亘丿賴. :))
丕賲丕 亘丕 丕蹖賳 賴賲賴 趩乇丕 亘賴卮 鄞 丿丕丿賲責 禺亘 氐丕丿賯丕賳賴 亘诏賲 讴賴 亘丕 鄄鄣 氐賮丨賴 丌禺乇 讴鬲丕亘 丕氐賱丕 丨丕賱 賳讴乇丿賲 賵 賴賲賵賳胤賵乇 讴賴 亘賴 賴賲禺賵丕賳 诏賱賲 诏賮鬲賲貙 丕賳诏丕乇 蹖讴 賳賵蹖爻賳丿賴 丿蹖诏賴 丕賵賳賵 賳賵卮鬲賴 蹖丕 賴丕賲爻賵賳 賵爻胤 賳賵卮鬲賳 倬丕卮丿賴 乇賮鬲賴 賮賵鬲爻丕賱 .鈥�
亘丕 丕蹖賳 賵噩賵丿貙 亘丕夭賲 丿賵爻鬲卮 丿丕卮鬲賲 賵 丕賮鬲禺丕乇 乇賮鬲賳 鬲賵蹖 賱蹖爻鬲 讴鬲丕亘 賴丕蹖 賲丨亘賵亘賲 乇賵 亘賴卮 賲蹖丿賲 .
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丕蹖賳 乇蹖賵蹖賵賵 乇賵 亘丿賵賳 丿賵亘丕乇賴 禺賵賳丿賳卮 丌倬丿蹖鬲 賲蹖讴賳賲貙 賮丕乇睾 丕夭 睾賱胤 賴丕蹖 賳诏丕乇卮蹖 賵 鬲丕蹖倬賵 賴丕 丕賲蹖丿賵丕乇賲 丕賵賳賯丿乇 鬲乇睾蹖亘 讴賳賳丿賴 亘丕卮賴 讴賴 賴賲蹖賳 丕賱丕賳 鬲賵蹖 賮賴乇爻鬲 賵丕賳鬲 鬲賵 乇蹖丿 鬲賵賳 丕丿卮 讴賳蹖丿. 賵 丕賲蹖丿賵丕乇賲 丌賳賯丿乇 禺賵卮 亘禺鬲 亘丕卮蹖丿 讴賴 賴丿蹖賴 亘诏蹖乇蹖丿卮 :)))
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1,262 reviews359 followers
April 22, 2022
What a perfect portrayal of the psychological and physical effects of hunger on a person. Of his rantings and ravings, his hallucinations and inner dialogues and his pride, chivalry, integrity and principles. "It is the reign of Autumn, the height of the Carnival of Decay, the roses have got inflammation in their blushes, an uncanny hectic tinge, through their soft damask."
The narrator is an unnamed writer who is suffering from hunger and homelessness. He tries to survive from day to day by writing articles for newspapers. He pawns everything he owns, everything except his small pencil and some papers. He even tries to pawn his old borrowed blanket and coat buttons to no avail!..."I was drunk with starvation; my hunger had made me tipsy."

I am emotionally drained! How often, during reading this dark and extremely realistic novel i wished i could be there to help this impoverished man. To share my food and fire with him, to hold his hands and tell him not to lose hope, not to give up. After all, "It is a splendid thing to exist sometimes!"
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Author听1 book1,144 followers
December 13, 2016
亘丕乇賴丕 亘賴 丕蹖賳 賮讴乇 讴乇丿賴鈥屫з� 讴賴 賲賳 讴噩丕蹖 賴乇賲 賲夭賱賵 賴爻鬲賲責 丿爻鬲鈥屭┵� 丕蹖賳 乇丕 倬匕蹖乇賮鬲賴鈥屫з� 讴賴 丕诏乇 丌丿賲 賲丿丕賲 丿睾丿睾賴鈥屰� 賳蹖丕夭賴丕蹖 丕亘鬲丿丕蹖蹖鈥屫ж� 乇丕 丿丕卮鬲賴 亘丕卮丿貙 讴賲鈥屫� 賲蹖鈥屫堌з嗀� 亘賴 讴蹖賮蹖鬲 夭賳丿诏蹖鈥屫ж� 賮讴乇 讴賳丿. 丌丿賲 賲蹖鈥屫堌з嗀� 賲孬賱 乇丕賵蹖 乇賲丕賳 诏乇爻賳賴 亘賴 賲乇鬲亘賴鈥屰� 爻诏蹖 亘乇爻丿 讴賴 亘乇丕蹖 丕爻鬲禺賵丕賳蹖 亘丿賵賳 诏賵卮鬲 丕賱鬲賲丕爻 賲蹖鈥屭┵嗀� 亘丕 丕蹖賳鈥屬囐呝� 趩蹖夭蹖 丿乇 丕賳爻丕賳 賴爻鬲 讴賴 丕賵 乇丕 丕夭 丕蹖賳 讴丕乇 亘丕夭賲蹖鈥屫ж必�. 丕賳爻丕賳蹖鬲蹖 讴賴 亘丕蹖丿 丨賮馗 卮賵丿. 卮丕蹖丿 亘賴 丕蹖賳 丿賱蹖賱 讴賴 丕蹖賳 鬲賳賴丕 丿丕乇丕蹖蹖 賲卮鬲乇讴 賴賲賴鈥屰� 丕賳爻丕賳鈥屬囏й� 賮賯蹖乇 賵 孬乇賵鬲賲賳丿 丕爻鬲.
賴賲蹖賳 讴賴 讴鬲丕亘 乇丕 卮乇賵毓 讴乇丿賲貙 賮讴乇 讴乇丿賲 讴賴 亘丕夭 丿丕乇賲 乇賲丕賳蹖 卮亘蹖賴 芦賲丕賱賵蹖禄 乇丕 賲蹖鈥屫堌з嗁� 賵 賳讴鈥屬堎嗀з勝� 丿乇丌賲丿. 丕賲丕 亘毓丿 噩賴丕賳 丕蹖賳 讴鬲丕亘 乇丕 蹖讴鈥屫池� 賲鬲賮丕賵鬲 丕夭 讴鬲丕亘 芦亘讴鬲禄 丿蹖丿賲. 卮賲丕 乇丕賵蹖 乇丕 丿賵爻鬲 丿丕乇蹖丿. 丕賵 賳賲蹖鈥屫堌з囏� 讴賴 丕賮讴丕乇卮 乇丕 鬲噩夭蹖賴 賵 鬲丨賱蹖賱 讴賳丿貙 亘賱讴賴 賴賲賵丕乇賴 丿乇 倬蹖 乇賮鬲賳 丕夭 丕蹖賳 賱丨馗賴 亘賴 賱丨馗賴鈥屰� 丿蹖诏乇 丕爻鬲. 爻蹖丕賱蹖鬲蹖 讴賴 丿乇 乇賵丕蹖鬲 丿丕爻鬲丕賳 賵噩賵丿 丿丕乇丿 丌賳鈥屭嗁嗀з� 禺賵丕賳賳丿賴 乇丕 亘丕 乇丕賵蹖 賴賲乇丕賴 賲蹖鈥屭┵嗀� 讴賴 诏賵蹖蹖 乇賳噩鈥屬囏й� 乇丕賵蹖 賴賲丕賳 乇賳噩鈥屬囏й� 禺賵丕賳賳丿賴 丕爻鬲.

*丕蹖賳 讴鬲丕亘 噩夭 賱蹖爻鬲 賴夭丕乇 賵 蹖讴 讴鬲丕亘蹖 丕爻鬲 讴賴 亘丕蹖丿 賯亘賱 丕夭 賲乇诏 禺賵丕賳丿.
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