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    This document provides a summary of the book "Hunger" by Knut Hamsun. It describes the book as an autobiographical novel about a penniless unemployed young writer. The protagonist is driven to the edge of self-destruction by poverty and lack of work. The book provides a psychologically accurate portrayal of what it feels like to experience hunger and desperation. In the end, the protagonist chooses to board a ship and leave his old existence behind, representing a break from his past and a choice to continue living. The struggle depicted in the book serves as an allegory for the struggles of being an artist.

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    This document provides a summary of the book "Hunger" by Knut Hamsun. It describes the book as an autobiographical novel about a penniless unemployed young writer. The protagonist is driven to the edge of self-destruction by poverty and lack of work. The book provides a psychologically accurate portrayal of what it feels like to experience hunger and desperation. In the end, the protagonist chooses to board a ship and leave his old existence behind, representing a break from his past and a choice to continue living. The struggle depicted in the book serves as an allegory for the struggles of being an artist.

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    This document provides a summary of the book "Hunger" by Knut Hamsun. It describes the book as an autobiographical novel about a penniless unemployed young writer. The protagonist is driven to the edge of self-destruction by poverty and lack of work. The book provides a psychologically accurate portrayal of what it feels like to experience hunger and desperation. In the end, the protagonist chooses to board a ship and leave his old existence behind, representing a break from his past and a choice to continue living. The struggle depicted in the book serves as an allegory for the struggles of being an artist.

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    BUSINESS COMMUNICATION

    ASSIGNMENT-1

    V.ELAVARASAN

    ROLL NO : 2115110066
    BOOK NAME: HUNGER

    AUTHOR : KNUT HAMSUN

    OBJECTIVE : POVERTY

    One Man's Experiences without Food, Is Ultimately Too Individualistic To Offer


    Us Much Insight on The Human Condition Generally

    This powerful, autobiographical novel by a Nobel Prize-winning author made


    literary history when it was first published in 1890. A modern classic about a
    penniless, unemployed young writer, the book paints an unforgettable portrait of a
    man driven to the edge of self-destruction by forces beyond his control
    Hunger is a psychologically accurate portrait of a hungry man, in this case an
    artist. Hamsun himself suffered greatly from poverty during several phases of his
    early life and must have experienced a bit of what our wanderer in the book went
    through his genius was able to extrapolate on that to produce this gripping realistic
    work.
    Desperation, starvation and madness are sometimes the only food a man can
    stomach when faced with the aloof insensitivity and disguised savagery of civilized
    life. To feel honest, to feel honestly, to feel fully. This is the internal path. You
    cannot break and remake the world, so you break yourself. That’s not for everyone.
    Neither is this book. In Hunger, everything is lost at one time or another as the
    artist’s constellation circulates the universe the streets he wanders. Except one
    thing. A tiny shred of human pride and hope, which he is unable to destroy within
    himself. A fundamental dignity. A fundamental innocence. And it is that which
    sustains him.
    Despite the apparent slide downhill in Hunger, I believe he finally discovers what
    he needs, and is delivered. I believe he chooses life in the end. He steps aboard a
    ship. He leaves his old existence, and it’s a moment’s decision. A break. This is a
    beautiful and powerful book. The struggle is the allegory of the artist. Alienation at
    war with the need for acceptance. Pride and anonymity. The music it is set to is the
    voice of Knut Hamsun, who starved, and wrote as a young man, and survived as
    well.

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