Friends of Gabriel Chantayan

the whole colonist reading of hunger is costume drama. they sand the teeth off the paragraphs until it looks like a brontë novel with norwegian furniture. hamsun wrote a man who resents the bread he is about to eat - who hates it before the first bite, because the need makes him smaller than the crust. nobody in this city gets that. jonas does not get that. he says pizza like it is a social category, like agreeing to it is an act of belonging. i say later meaning never and he already knows, but the ritual demands the question anyway.

so who here has actually read hunger and is willing to admit the hero is not sympathetic? or do you all need him to be jesus again because every text has to be a prayer at your table?