検索キーワード： "Knut Hamsun" 文芸小説

Verging on death, a starving, destitute writer navigates the cold and indifferent city of Kristiania in search of his next meal. Frenzied and fevered, he chews on stale bread, devours scraps of wood, and bites his own finger, sleeping under the stars in old, pungent blankets, until one day he is able to sell an article and buy some food - only for the cycle then to repeat itself....

Knut Hamsun'un "Açlık" adlı eseri, edebiyatın en güçlü psikolojik anlatımlarından birini sunar. 1890'da yayımlanan bu roman, bir yazarın açlık sancılarıyla boğuştuğu, kendi benliği ve toplumla olan ilişkisi arasında sıkışıp kaldığı bir dönemi anlatır.

La crítica mundial la considera "Victoria" como el mayor exponente del talento de Knut Hamsun en su madurez, la obra en la que alcanza la perfección de la forma y en la que el análisis psicológico penetra en mayor extensión y con mayor profundidad en los actos de los protagonistas. Hamsun relata una historia de amor que podría no tener mayor trascendencia si no fuera porque, como él mismo dice, lo importante reside en los "secretos movimientos que se realizan inadvertidos en lugares apartados de la mente".

Short stories have always been a sort of instant access into an author’s brain, their soul and heart. They can lift our lives into locations, people and experiences with a sweep of landscape, narration, feelings and emotions that is difficult to achieve elsewhere. In this volume we come up against the definition of Northern Europe. There are many, each with plausibility and each so obvious. So, here’s ours.

In this series we try to offer up tried and trusted ‘Top Tens’ across many different themes and authors. But any anthology will immediately throw up the questions – Why that story? Why that author? In this volume the once forgotten literary backwaters of Scandinavia, and its hinterland, reveal the storied works of their own literature. Some names are familiar, some decidedly not. But each has literary talents and compelling narratives.