W potrzasku Kristianii. Głód Knuta Hamsuna jako modernistyczna powieść miejska
Trapped in Kristiania: Knut Hamsun’s Hunger as a modernist city novel

Summary/Abstract: This article highlights the modernist traits that emerge from urban elements in Knut Hamsun’s novel Hunger. Hamsun’s portrayal of the relationship between the individual and the mass is one such element; another one is the individual’s behaviour in public spaces, or the representation of the city as an organic labyrinth while nature is the source of the protagonist’s anxiety. Finally choosing nature, however, the protagonist attains hope and self-realization. This choice also foreshadows Hamsun’s later anti-civilizational tendencies.

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