Its main character visits an editor and unsuccessfully attempts to sell his essay about Correggio, and finally leaves his city on a Russian ship bound for England.
At the end of this novel, its main character attempts to write a play set in the Middle Ages about a fanatical whore who fornicates at the foot of an altar out of contempt for Heaven. Its main character invents the word "Kuboa" inside of a prison cell after falsely claiming that his name is Andreas Tangen. The protagonist of this novel sits on a park bench and mechanically writes the year 1848 on a sheet of paper, causing him to be turned away from a job when he unthinkingly puts down 1848 as his year of birth on the application. Its main character visits an editor and unsuccessfully attempts to sell his essay about Correggio, and finally leaves his city on a Russian ship bound for England. First published in 1890, this novel is narrated by a feverish young writer who tries to pawn the buttons on his coat to survive. For 10 points, name this novel about a man wandering the streets of Christiana in the throes of the title condition, the first novel by Knut Hamsun.
At the end of this novel, its main character attempts to write a play set in the Middle Ages about a fanatical whore who fornicates at the foot of an altar out of contempt for Heaven.
Hunger [or Sult]