Its unnamed protagonist subsists by writing articles like "Crimes of the Future," and constantly encounters difficulties as when he is rejected for a bookkeeping job because he improperly dated the application.  
This novel was originally published anonymously in the periodical Ny Jord [YORD].  Its unnamed protagonist subsists by writing articles like "Crimes of the Future," and constantly encounters difficulties as when he is rejected for a bookkeeping job because he improperly dated the application.  Later he pawns his waistcoat for a kroner and half but uses most of the money to help an old cripple buy milk.  Set in the city of Christiana, it details the narrator's descent into madness, which is caused by the title circumstance.  FTP, name this novel by Knut Hamsun about a starving writer.
This novel was originally published anonymously in the periodical Ny Jord [YORD].  
Hunger or Sult