Sult, written by Knut Hamsun, is a story that brutally illustrates the effect that one man’s hunger has on his life and work. Often referred to as “one of the great novels of urban alienation" (Heller 29), Hamsun takes a natural condition, hunger,...

Knut Hamsun’s fin de siècle novel Hunger sets the reader up for a journey with its opening sentence when Hamsun writes, “Christiania, singular city, from which no man departs without carrying away traces of his sojourn there.” (Hunger 1). Here,...

Hunger, written by Lan Samantha Chang, is a novella that shares the story of a family troubled with a desire for a better life. The story is told from Min’s perspective - the mother - and it is she who recollects the everyday life of the family....