Hunger Artist, a (1922) [Short Story]
by Franz Kafka
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Summary
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The final months of a hunger artist—a once-successful man who attracted large crowds by fasting for days on end.
"A Hunger Artist" reflects Kafka's own suffering from tuberculosis, which caused him so much pain in his throat that he found it almost impossible to eat.
Originally published in Die Neue Rundschau, October 1922.
Original title: Ein Hungerkünstler
Alternative titles: A Fasting Artist
Original languages:
German
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Genre: Fiction→ Fantasy→ Literary Fantasy
This work is a subwork of the following works :
Penal Colony: Stories and Short Pieces, the (1948) [Collection]
Author: Franz Kafka
Twelve German Novellas (1977) [Anthology]
Authors: Franz Kafka
, Gerhart Hauptmann
, Thomas Mann
, Theodor Fontane
, E. T. A. Hoffmann
, Gottfried Keller
, Christoph Martin Wieland
, Heinrich von Kleist
, Arthur Schnitzler
, Adelbert von Chamisso
, Conrad Ferdinand Meyer
, Werner Bergengruen
Basic Kafka, the (1979) [Collection]
Author: Franz Kafka
Transformation and Other Stories, the (1992) [Collection]
Author: Franz Kafka
Metamorphosis and Other Stories, the (2003) [Collection]
Author: Franz Kafka
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