A Hunger Artist - Softcover

Kafka, Franz

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1479422428 ISBN 13: 9781479422425

Verlag: Wildside Press, 2025

Inhaltsangabe

A Hunger Artist is a haunting short story by Franz Kafka that explores themes of isolation, artistic struggle, and the search for meaning. The tale follows a performer who achieves fame through his extreme fasting exhibitions, yet remains unfulfilled as society loses interest in his suffering. Blending allegory with Kafka's signature surrealism, this story examines the limits of human endurance and the cost of uncompromising dedication.

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Reseña del editor

"A Hunger Artist" tells the story of a performance artist whose artwork is hunger: public fasting in a cage, before gawking throngs who believe, somehow, that he is a fake. As public interest in Hunger Artists fades, the protagonist takes his talent in new and dangerous directions. A classic story by the author of "The Metamorphosis."

Biografía del autor

Franz Kafka was born to Jewish parents in Bohemia in 1883. Kafka s father was a luxury goods retailer who worked long hours and as a result never became close with his son. Kafka s relationship with his father greatly influenced his later writing and directly informed his Brief an den Vater (Letter to His Father). Kafka had a thorough education and was fluent in both German and Czech. As a young man, he was hired to work at an insurance company where he was quickly promoted despite his desire to devote his time to writing rather than insurance. Over the course of his life, Kafka wrote a great number of stories, letters, and essays, but burned the majority of his work before his death and requested that his friend Max Brod burn the rest. Brod, however, did not fulfill this request and published many of the works in the years following Kafka s death of tuberculosis in 1924. Thus, most of Kafka s works were published posthumously, and he did not live to see them recognized as some of the most important examples of literature of the twentieth century. Kafka s works are considered among the most significant pieces of existentialist writing, and he is remembered for his poignant depictions of internal conflicts with alienation and oppression. Some of Kafka s most famous works include The Metamorphosis, The Trial and The Castle.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Wildside Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2025
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 1479422428
• ISBN 13: 9781479422425
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 24
• Kontakt zum Hersteller: Nicht verfügbar