fiction files redux discussion

I read Hunger early this year and didn't realise it was written in the 19th century until after I had finished. It read more like a modernist work from the 20s at the earliest.
It was one of those books like One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich that really makes you appreciate the fact that you are warm and have enough to eat.

. . .wow, great post, chris . . . growth of the soil is my favorite hamsun, and one of my favorite novels ever . . .

oops, i spelled your name with a ch . . .

thanks kris. i'll add some hamsun to my to-read.

fear not, plenty of weirdness in growth of the soil, which has for me that haunting quality you allude to . . .

I read Hunger last year and loved it. So strange and hilariously sad. I just found a copy of PAN at a used bookstore recently. Can't wait to get started.