A Hunger Artist
Jan 1979 · The Complete Works of Franz Kafka Kitabu cha 22 · Continental Press
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Written during Kafka's final years as he battled tuberculosis, A Hunger Artist was the last work he personally prepared for publication before his death in 1924. The story appeared first in Die Neue Rundschau before being published as part of a collection by Verlag Die Schmiede. Max Brod recounted that Kafka revised the text extensively while staying at the Kierling sanatorium near Vienna, perhaps seeing parallels between the artist's physical withering and his own condition. The story chronicles the decline of a professional faster whose art form - public starvation displays - falls out of fashion with changing times. Set against the backdrop of Europe's post-war transformation, the text captures the death of old cultural forms and the public's shifting appetites for entertainment. The hunger artist's insistence on fasting beyond forty days - the maximum his impresario allows - points to the gap between artistic purity and commercial demands. His body becomes a battlefield where artistic integrity clashes with market forces, while his cage in the circus suggests how art gets relegated to sideshows in an age of mass entertainment. The hunger artist's final confession - that he fasted simply because he could never find food he liked - strips away the spiritual and artistic pretensions surrounding his performance. This revelation transforms the story from allegory about artistic sacrifice into something more ambiguous and personally haunting. The text resonates with Kafka's own complicated relationship to food, his sense of alienation from Prague's literary culture, and his struggles with tuberculosis that made eating difficult in his final years. When circus workers clear away the hunger artist's body like so much straw, replacing him with a young panther full of vital energy, the story delivers its sharpest bite - showing how quickly culture discards what it once celebrated, how thoroughly new forms devour the old. This modern translation from the original German is a fresh, accessible and beautifully rendered text that brings to life Kafka's great literary work. This edition contains extra amplifying material including an illuminating afterword, a timeline of Kafka's life and works alongside of the historical events which shaped his art, and a short biography, to place this work in its socio-historical context.
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A Bohemian novelist and short-story writer, Kafka's work, which fuses elements of realism and the fantastic, typically features isolated protagonists facing bizarre or surrealistic predicaments and incomprehensible socio-bureaucratic powers. His writings, such as "The Metamorphosis" and "The Trial," explore themes of alienation, existential anxiety, and guilt, and are influential in modernist literature.
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