Isbn: 9780141180649 - hunger (penguin twentieth-century classics) (8 Ergebnisse)

Paperback. Zustand: Good. A modernist masterpiece: the Nobel Prize winner's first and most important novel First published in Norway in 1890, Hunger probes the depths of consciousness with frightening and gripping power. Contemptuous of novels of his time and what he saw as their stereotypical plots and empty characters, Knut Hamsun embarked on "an attempt to describe the strange, peculiar life of the mind, the mysteries of the nerves in a starving body." Like the works of Dostoyevsky, it marks an extraordinary break with Western literary and humanistic traditions. Penguin Classics is the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world, representing a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.…

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Paperback. Zustand: Brand New. open market ed edition. 240 pages. 8.25x5.00x0.75 inches. In Stock.

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Paperback. Zustand: Brand New. open market ed edition. 240 pages. 8.25x5.00x0.75 inches. In Stock.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - A modernist masterpiece: the Nobel Prize winner's first and most important novel First published in Norway in 1890, Hunger probes the depths of consciousness with frightening and gripping power. Contemptuous of novels of his time and what he saw as their stereotypical plots and empty characters, Knut Hamsun embarked on 'an attempt to describe the strange, peculiar life of the mind, the mysteries of the nerves in a starving body.' Like the works of Dostoyevsky, it marks an extraordinary break with Western literary and humanistic traditions. Penguin Classics is the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world, representing a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.…

Zustand: New. &Uumlber den AutorrnrnKnut Hamsun (1858-1952) was a Norwegian novelist, poet, and playwright hailed by many as one of the founders of modern literature. Born to a poor peasant family in central Norway, he worked as a schoolmaster, sheriff s ass.