# Hunger — Character guide

> Key figures in Hunger by Knut Hamsun.

- [The Narrator](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/hunger_se/characters/narrator.md): He drifts through Christiania with holes in his shoes and nothing in his stomach, peddling articles to newspapers while his dignity outlasts his money. His pride is both armor and affliction: he invents a name, pawns his
- [Ylajali](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/hunger_se/characters/ylajali.md): She first exists only as a name he gives her — Ylajali — a word he repeats like a charm, conjuring palaces of amethyst and ruby where she waits on a throne of yellow roses. When they finally meet, she is real and strange
- [Hans Pauli](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/hunger_se/characters/hans_pauli.md): A student acquaintance of the narrator who appears in the city.
- [Missy](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/hunger_se/characters/missy.md): A woman the narrator speaks with in a shop.

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