A nameless young writer drifts through the streets of Kristiania, now Oslo, too poor to eat and too proud to beg. He pawns his waistcoat and buttons, writes articles he cannot sell, invents names for strangers, and records with feverish exactness how starvation bends his thoughts. This is George Egerton’s translation, in a softened edition.
Hamsun’s first great novel, a forerunner of modernist fiction, for readers of Dostoevsky and Kafka. Download the free EPUB.