A Hunger Artist - Softcover

Kafka, Franz

 
9781918305517: A Hunger Artist
Softcover
ISBN 10: 191830551X ISBN 13: 9781918305517
Verlag: The Lost Book Project, 2025

Inhaltsangabe

A Hunger Artist (Ein Hungerkünstler) by Franz Kafka is one of the most profound and unsettling stories of twentieth-century literature. Written in 1922 and published in 1924, it tells the story of a professional faster who makes his art of starvation a public performance. Once admired, he becomes forgotten as society moves on, leaving him trapped between devotion and invisibility. Kafka’s prose is precise, controlled, and haunting, capturing the tension between purity and recognition, spirit and flesh, creation and decay.

This timeless allegory stands as one of Kafka’s final masterpieces, a reflection on the cost of artistic integrity and the loneliness of misunderstood genius. The hunger artist’s cage becomes a symbol of alienation, endurance, and the conflict between the individual and the crowd. With its piercing clarity and philosophical depth, A Hunger Artist continues to challenge readers to confront the nature of art, suffering, and self-sacrifice in the modern age.

An essential classic of modernist and existential literature, presented here in a clear and faithful English translation. Perfect for readers of Albert Camus, Jean-Paul Sartre, and Fyodor Dostoevsky, this edition preserves Kafka’s unique rhythm and precision.

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Verlag
The Lost Book Project
Erscheinungsdatum
2025
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
191830551X
ISBN 13 
9781918305517
Einband
Taschenbuch
Anzahl der Seiten
24
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