Hunger

Hunger (Norwegian: Sult) is a novel by the
Norwegian author Knut Hamsun and was published in its final form in 1890. Parts
of it had been published anonymously in the Danish magazine Ny Jord in 1888. The
novel is hailed as the literary opening of the 20th century and an outstanding
example of modern, psychology-driven literature. It hails the irrationality of
the human mind in an intriguing and sometimes humorous novel. It has been
translated into English three times: in 1899 by Mary Chavelita Dunne (under the
alias George Egerton), by Robert Bly in 1967, and by Sverre Lyngstad, whose
translation is considered definitive.

— Excerpted from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.