# Nälkä

By Knut Hamsun.

"Nälkä" by Knut Hamsun is a novel published in 1890. Set in late 19th-century Kristiania, it follows an unnamed starving young man wandering the streets as his mental and physical state deteriorates. While trying to maintain respectability, he descends into a delusionary existence, overwhelmed by hunger and his own self-destructive choices. This psychology-driven work explores the irrational workings of the human mind through a series of encounters, depicting the darker side of modern urban life with both intensity and dark humor. (Summary by Project Gutenberg, written by machine.)

- Language: Finnish
- Translator: Viki Kärkkäinen
- Subjects: Authors -- Fiction; Norway -- Fiction; Hunger -- Fiction; Starvation -- Fiction; Urban poor -- Fiction

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