Hunger, the novel devoted to the Nobel Prize Knut Hamsun (1859-1952) in his native Norway, inhospitable place in the Oslo (then Christiania) in that crossroads of centuries: a Protestant society (and not) and preindustrial, without being as brutal as other European societies of that time, we are shown feverishly pragmatist. Its protagonist, Jens Ola, is a young writer and professional journalist, suffering from a major problem of the human condition: The difficulty of man to make a living preventing him from dying of hunger, not working on anything and without - Herein lies the tragedy-go begging, crime, prostitution (which can also be spiritual) or inheritance. Earning
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Nothing says Jens social origin. But while the drama elapses, we know that educated and cultured (some of his gestures deduce its bourgeois origin), individualistic, somewhat proud, mad and possessed by religious outpourings, from the glorification of suffering, through the resigned obedience, to the ultimate rebellion against God less than against a system that prevents arise in a fair fight. Indeed, Jens does not rebel against any work (we are told he has held various offices), but against failure to exercise power that is innate: writing in its many forms, for which he has a proven talent, they made money by writing articles for newspapers. And it is here where Hunger brings us to another of the key themes of literature: The uprooting (or distress) of the artist not reified or not bound by family or epoch, an uprooting himself shared by Knut Hamsun, a Once a Nazi sympathizer and always abjured of bourgeois democracy and its system of appearances ("There are men who believe that virtue is to say, 'virtue is needed!". But in fact need only believe that the police " summarize Nietzsche).
also Jens race to immortality is drawn from contradictions: As a monk awaiting in his ascetic divine illumination institutional faculty, Jens waiting for inspiration laborious under worldly noise, where downtime is frowned without trappings, especially the police. Not to mention the dissonant versions of good and evil (his enforced asceticism prevents him from accepting human selfishness), correctness and incorrectness (the joy of some faces you find intolerable, his handling of money and charity are too foolish) and even the very being of writing (muse overestimates the detriment of work inertial) ... qualities that deepen hunger while it begins to gnaw.
Eros on hunger
Halfway through hunger, while the awful winter approaches, Jens unwelcome to a woman days later he continues, even in spite of its appearance. He idealizes and Ylajali flame. When they were walking perceive to be a prostitute that believes a libertine depleted, but that erratic receive virtuous behavior ("I made it clear that the poor is an intelligent observer much finer than the rich smart. The poor man looks alread ¬ sellers every step and every word spy hears suspiciously, and with every step he takes, he imposes on its thoughts and feelings a standard and a duty. It has the finest ear, are impressionable, and his soul has experienced burns ") changes in attitude and shows impenetrable, although it is still wanting. From this episode we ask fundamental questions: Can the women tolerate men only when poverty is born of misery or vice, but never a conscious attitude and even as part of a premeditated plan? ... Is the feminine zeal towards life and matter (except for religious women) a quality opposed to the flame and the artist's mouth, so you always crave escape the flame and put him down to earth?
"To die of starvation?
The fourth and last part of Hunger know Jens staying in a small room and having to three weeks. However, the pattern we fed twice a day with sliced \u200b\u200bbread, but he is still looking for inspiration and pouring words into their pages, this time an unprecedented medieval drama! His delusion is increased by malnutrition and can not concentrate. The cold gets worse and it starts to go crazy crowded, because it is involved in family matters (not tolerate human perfidy.) When we report that will occupy the fourth and must sleep in the room where the family resides, accept resignation and continues to write from a chair, but refuses to go, until the woman expels him by force. Sleeping outdoors one day and the next, fainting, returns home. But when the boss finds out the threat with the police. The outcome is exquisitely delirious and-beyond the unreality of the universe known literary predictable: Jens-first-person narrator of this novel is not surprising, starving and adjust your attitude ... but far from Christiania
As Jens is not a man of action, the strength of Hunger is not in the story, not in the description of the museum of horrors of being (the characters Hunger junior big lack pathos and almost seem painted). Jens is not a lunatic, or a torn hero, not a social victim, not a saint or a maverick vain: It is, above all, a subject deeply spiritual writing your surf pages that is one of the main tragedies of being human, as we remember the seventeenth verse, the third chapter of Genesis.
EVERY MAN SHOULD BE ABLE TO ALL THE IDEAS, AND UNDERSTAND THAT YOU WILL BE IN THE ARISING 
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