Ranked #31 in Nobel, Ranked #37 in Modernism — see more rankings.
Reviews and Recommendations
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Ryan Holiday AuthorA dark and moving first-person narrative, about the conflicting drives for self-preservation and self-immolation inside all of us. Hunger is about a writer who is starving himself. He cannot write because he is starving and cannot eat because writing is how he makes his living. It’s a vicious cycle and the book is a first-person descent into it. Strangely modern for being published in 1890 and ultimately inspired a lot of great stream-of-consciousness writing since (but influence goes unacknowledged because Knut was a Nazi sympathizer). (Source)
Stephane Grand This is an amazing book about being true to your engagements. (Source)
Rankings by Category
Hunger is ranked in the following categories:
- #54 in Existential
- #60 in Existentialism
- #43 in Modernist
- #82 in Project Gutenberg