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‘A Hunger Artist’: plot summary. The story is about a hunger artist: a circus performer who remains in a cage and engages in fasting for weeks on end, eating nothing. Crowds of people come to see him and admire his ability to last without food for such long periods of time.
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"A Hunger Artist" (German: "Ein Hungerkünstler") 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 ( Ein Hungerkünstler ), the last book Kafka prepared for publication, which was printed by Verlag Die Schmiede shortly after his death.
- Franz Kafka
- Germany (written in Austria-Hungary)
- 1922
- Ein Hungerkünstler
Full Plot Summary. Previous. A man who is known only as “the hunger artist” and fasts for a living travels from town to European town with the impresario (his manager). In each town, the hunger artist chooses a public location and puts himself on display in a locked, straw-lined cage, where he fasts for periods of up to forty days.
Summary. Analysis. The story opens with a contextualization of hunger as an art form. The narration tells the reader that, though it was once a popular and profitable spectacle, the art of hunger has a suffered a “marked decline” over the “last few decades.” Kafka situates the story not at the heyday of hunger artistry, but during its decline.
A Hunger Artist was translated by Ian Johnston. Dalziel Brothers, There Sat a Man in an Iron Cage, 1890. In the last decades interest in hunger artists has declined considerably. Whereas in earlier days there was good money to be earned putting on major productions of this sort under one’s own management, nowadays that is totally impossible.
A Hunger Artist. “A Hunger Artist” is a bleak, fable-like story without any clear moral at the end. It tells the tragic tale of the hunger artist, a man so utterly dedicated to fasting that he denies himself anything else in life. He spends his life in a cage, only leaving if someone makes him.
