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Sult

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By Knut Hamsun
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The narrative follows an unnamed, starving narrator in a city as he drifts through days consumed by hunger, shame, and intermittent creative impulses. He seeks money, endures humiliations, and alternates between clear observation and feverish imagination; mundane encounters and petty details intensify his physical misery and distort his perceptions. Episodes trace escalating privation, moments of pride and self-deception, and a fragile empathy toward others, while the prose renders urban life and inner experience with intense immediacy, exploring how lack of food reshapes thought, memory, and social relations.

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Title: Sult

Author: Knut Hamsun

Release date: September 19, 2009 [eBook #30027]
Most recently updated: October 24, 2024

Language: Norwegian

Credits: Jens Sadowski.
Revised by Richard Tonsing.

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Transcriber’s note

Spelling. In this first edition of “Sult”, old spelling rules were applied which look quite different from modern written Norwegian (“bokmål”). In addition, the letters Å and å where set as Aa and aa, respectively. Since many other Norwegian books printed at this time used Å and å and in order to improve readability, all Aa and aa have been converted to Å and å. Otherwise, the original spelling was not changed.

Spaced-out text. Text that was s p a c e d - o u t in the original text has been changed to use italics.

KNUT HAMSUN

SULT






KØBENHAVN

P. G. PHILIPSENS FORLAG

Trykt hos J. Jorgensen & Co. (M. A. Hannover)
1890