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A Hunger Artist
A Hunger Artist | Franz Kafka
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A Hunger Artist is a short story by Franz Kafka first published in Die neue Rundschau in 1922. The story was also included in the collection A Hunger Artist, the last book Kafka prepared for publication, printed by Verlag Die Schmiede after Kafka's death. The protagonist, a hunger artist who experiences the decline in appreciation of his craft, is an archetypical creation of Kafka: an individual marginalized and victimized by society at large. The title of the story has been translated also to "A Fasting Artist" and "A Starvation Artist".A Hunger Artist explores the familiar Kafka themes of death, art, isolation, asceticism, spiritual poverty, futility, personal failure and the corruption of human relationships.
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Libby1
A Hunger Artist | Franz Kafka
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What a strange and startling little story. Day after day the crowds come to watch the Hunger Artist in his cage. Why do they watch him?

Like Dickens (Dickensian) and Shakespeare (Shakespearean), Kafka truly deserves to have his name transformed into an adjective (Kafkaesque).

Thanks again, @SerialReader , for the opportunity to read this.

#SerialReader

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ephemeralwaltz
A Hunger Artist | Franz Kafka
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"first out of the striving for perfection, later out of a habit that had in time become tyrannical..."

Reading a few of the stories in the Kafka collection that @ju.ca.no sent me for #cupidgoespostal! He's marvelous ❤ Happy Saturday!

ju.ca.no aaaw so glad you like it😘 😊 7y
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