"Hunger" is a novel about a young man from the provinces who dreams of becoming a writer. Confident in his own genius, he prefers to suffer from poverty rather than give up his ambitions. He turns his inner life—both as sickly soul and as body—into a single hallucination. Hunger sharpens the hero’s “inner sight,” exposing the secret movements of his soul.
Keeping the hero in a state of prolonged affect, the author destroys his everyday consciousness and, as if through a magnifying glass, examines the countless stream of thoughts and feelings in the remote depths of the subconscious.