Sult
By Knut Hamsun
In Kristiania in the 1880s a young writer who never gives his name wanders the streets half starved, trying to sell articles to the newspapers and keep his pride. Told in his own voice across four episodes of hunger, the book follows the strange turns his mind takes as want sharpens and distorts it. Hamsun's first novel and a landmark of modern fiction.
Summary written with Claude Opus 5.5.