Author: Knut Hamsun

Cites

• Antonin Artaud (1)
  • IN: Hunger (1970) Fiction, NULL
    EPIGRAPH: What is important, it seems to me, is not so much to defend a culture whose existence has never kept a man from going hungry, as to extract, from what is called culture, ideas whose compelling force is identical with that of hunger.
    FROM: The Theatre and its Double, (1938), Book, France

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• Marie Darrieussecq (1)
  • IN: Pig Tales (1990) Fiction, French
    EPIGRAPH: Then the knife plunges in. The farm-hand gives it two little shoves to push it through the thick skin, after which the long blade seems to melt through the neck fat as it sinks in up to the hilt. At first the boar doesn't understand a thing, he remains stretched out for a few seconds, thinking about it. Aha! Then he realizes he is being killed and utters strangled cries until he can scream no more.
    FROM: Benoni, (1908), Novel, Norway
• Adam Thirlwell (1)
  • IN: Lurid & Cute (2015) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: Why should I be the guinea pig for the caprice of fate? There was, after all, Pascha the second-hand book dealer, & Hennechen, the steamship agent...
    FROM: Hunger, (1890), Novel, Norway
• Philip Schultz (1)
  • IN: The Wherewithal (2001) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: Despite my alienation from myself at that moment, and though I was nothing but a battleground for invisible forces, I was aware of every detail of what was going on around me.
    FROM: Hunger, (1890), Novel, Norway