One of the darkest novels of the century: Hunger

Isn't the sex scene in Knut Hamsun's 1920 novel, "Hunger," among the weirdest every written? Probably pretty risque for its time, this scene has the unnamed narrator, whom by this point in the novel we know to be very odd and deranged, meeting the woman whom initially he stalked and who later seeks him out - they have a date to meet outside her apartment building - he calls her by some weird Lovecratfian name that I can't every remember, something like Ylayeli? - in fact, he has a Tourette-like penchant for shouting out meaningless syllables - anyway, they meet, she let's him know her mother and the maid are not home, they go up to her apartment - he says he'll "sit by the door" and she says he'll do "nothing of the sort" - they sit together on the couch, he begins to unbutton her blouse, to try to kiss her breasts, she eventually pulls away from him, frightened, and then she makes the observation that he is "insane" - this sets him off. He starts to leave, and then goes on a two-page, at least, rant, explaining that he's not insane - and the more he speaks, the crazier he seems of course, and we feel bad for this young woman, she's probably terrified, who knows what this man could do - she's certainly very odd for inviting him to her place after the weird behavior she's observed: and then, at the conclusion, she says: I love you anyway. What on earth are we to make of this? I speculated yesterday that the narrator may be some kind of Christ-like figure, and perhaps she is a like a disciple or like one of the Marys, but the twist is that this god is a mindless god, a god wit no connection to humanity; a bit earlier in Hunger, the narrator seems somewhat like Job: he goes into another long rant about how he's been forsaken by God, that nobody should suffer as he does (starving, impoverished, mad) - but remember that Job was a devout and powerful and prosperous man brought low by God's whim, for apparently no reason at all - we know nothing about this narrator's past, but it does seem that he's always been a troubled, alienated man, not a figure brought low but a marginal figure in need of grace. If the narrator of Hunger is a version of a deity, this is certainly one of the darkest novels of the dark 20th century. Note: I have since learned that the publication date for Hunger is 1890; 1920 is I think its English-language pub date. Makes Hunger even more of precursor than I'd thought.