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A Hunger Artist

Sigmund Freud

Publisher: Sheba Blake Publishing

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Summary

A Hunger Artist is a short story by Franz Kafka.  
 
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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Available since: 10/14/2020.

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