The protagonist earns ten crowns from selling a newspaper article, but he remains destitute and boards a ship bound for England as the novel closes.
The protagonist behaves erratically while thinking about writing, including an episode in which he accosts two ladies in the street, causing one to take note.  He dubs that woman Ylajali, and kisses her veiled face under a streetlight in a later scene.  After an encounter with a beggar, the narrator pawns his vest at an unfamiliar pawnshop and gives the money to the beggar. The protagonist earns ten crowns from selling a newspaper article, but he remains destitute and boards a ship bound for England as the novel closes. FTP, name this work in which the unnamed narrator mistakenly receives nearly five crowns for pawning a candle and uses it to alleviate the title condition, a work of Knut Hamsun.
The protagonist behaves erratically while thinking about writing, including an episode in which he accosts two ladies in the street, causing one to take note.  
{Hunger} or {Sult} (3) [AH]