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Hunger by Knut Hamsun
4.0
“There I sat, recalled mercilessly to life and misery. My first feeling was of stupid amazement at finding myself in the open air; but this was quickly replaced by a bitter despondency, I was near crying with sorrow at being still alive.”
Fantastic stream of consciousness story, where a starving artist, both hungry in body and hungry in creative ambitions, slowly loses his mind. He's no romanticized martyr for his art though. Rather, he's a complicated, absurd character. Wishes for death, doesn't get it, then keeps suffering and remains trapped in his cycle of needing to maintain a facade of dignity and self-sabotaging his life. I read Egerton's translation, need to reread with Lyngstad's version.
Fantastic stream of consciousness story, where a starving artist, both hungry in body and hungry in creative ambitions, slowly loses his mind. He's no romanticized martyr for his art though. Rather, he's a complicated, absurd character. Wishes for death, doesn't get it, then keeps suffering and remains trapped in his cycle of needing to maintain a facade of dignity and self-sabotaging his life. I read Egerton's translation, need to reread with Lyngstad's version.