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The story is about a hunger artist in a circus who sits in a cage and fasts for weeks on end. However, after forty days have passed, the impresario who runs the circus always puts an end to the hunger artist’s period of fasting. But what is the meaning of this story? Is it, as is so often the case with Kafka’s fiction, a modern fable?
- Franz Kafka
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The hunger artist seems confused, but what he does actually makes sense—his whole life he’s been a contradiction, trying to go beyond society but always needing its attention to give his art meaning.
The hunger artist’s career is marked by a sense of isolation and a lack of understanding from the public, who view his fasting as a form of entertainment. Explore a plot summary, an in-depth analysis of the hunger artist, and important quotes.
A Hunger Artist. " 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
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In “A Hunger Artist,” the hunger artist’s troubled relationship with his spectators suggests that the artist exists apart from society and must therefore be misunderstood. In the hunger artist’s case, being an artist means cutting oneself off from the world, a conclusion reflected in the hunger artist’s conscious choice to sequester ...
Kafka made his final edits to “A Hunger Artist”, a story of starvation, on his deathbed — as his tuberculosis prevented him from eating properly. The best study guide to A Hunger Artist on the planet, from the creators of SparkNotes. Get the summaries, analysis, and quotes you need.
