Hunger: who's who, timeline and places
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- The narratorAn unnamed writer wanders hungry through Christiania, struggling to earn money and pay his rent.First seen in part 1
- YlajaliPrincess Ylajali is a figure who appears in the hungry narrator’s dream.First seen in part 2
- The commandorHe rejects the narrator’s article about Correggio but offers an advance, which the narrator refuses.First seen in part 3
- The landladyThe narrator owes her three weeks of rent and struggles to check her account.First seen in part 4
- The sailorA paying lodger takes the narrator’s room after paying for a month.First seen in part 4
- Part 1
The narrator leaves his bare attic hungry, remembering failed job applications and occasional earnings from newspaper writing.
- Part 1
He pawns his waistcoat, gives a shilling to a lame shoe binder, and buys bread and cheese.
- Part 1
After eating, he plans a philosophical treatise but discovers his pencil remains in the pawned waistcoat.
- Part 2
After leaving the churchyard, the narrator tricks a policeman with an empty paper cone and dreams of Princess Ylajali.
- Part 2
He wakes in wet clothes, wanders the streets, and discovers that his keys are missing.
- Part 2
He obtains police lodging under the false name Andreas Tangen, but his invented identity stops him from requesting breakfast.
- Part 3
The commandor rejects the narrator’s article about Correggio and offers an advance, which he refuses.
- Part 3
The narrator keeps money mistakenly given by a shop boy, then vomits his purchased meal and drinks hot milk.
- Part 3
He refuses a streetwalker’s free invitation, pretends to be a pastor, and congratulates himself on his supposed goodness.
- Part 4
After three unpaid weeks, the narrator cannot check his landlady’s account and fears his mind is failing.
- Part 4
A sailor pays for a month and takes the narrator’s room, leaving him to sleep downstairs.
- Part 4
The narrator begins a drama, but seeing Ylajali with another man and enduring noise and mockery obstruct his work.
Hidden until you have read that far.
- ChristianiaThe city where the narrator wanders without breakfast or money for rent.First seen in part 1
- The little atticThe narrator’s bare lodging, which he leaves hungry while remembering his failed job applications.First seen in part 1
- The churchyardA place the narrator leaves before tricking a policeman with an empty paper cone.First seen in part 2
- The guardhousePolice lodging where the narrator receives a separate cell after giving a false name.First seen in part 2
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