<strong>Hunger</strong> is regarded as one of the major modernist novels anticipating andinfluencing much fiction that was to follow from Joyce to Kafka to Camu... » 

Hunger is regarded as one of the major modernist novels anticipating andinfluencing much fiction that was to follow from Joyce to Kafka to Camus andKelman. Set in Oslo Hunger is a compelling journey into the mind of a youngwriter who is driven by starvation to constantly fluctuating extremes ofeuphoria and despair. It is a study of the psychological hinterlands to thevery edges of experience where few writers have the courage to tread. «