A Hunger Artist and Other Stories
by Franz Kafka
A Hunger Artist and Other Stories by Franz Kafka
Kafka’s short fiction turns strange performances and ordinary anxieties into unsettling questions about belonging and recognition. The title story follows a professional faster whose extraordinary discipline depends on an audience that cannot fully understand him. Other stories extend Kafka’s interest in frustrated communication, peculiar transformations, and uncertain authority. This collection invites readers into concise fictional worlds where apparently clear roles quickly become difficult to interpret.
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A Hunger Artist and Other Stories
The title story follows a professional faster whose extraordinary discipline depends on an audience that cannot fully understand him. Other stories extend Kafka’s interest in frustrated communication, peculiar transformations, and uncertain authority. This collection invites readers into concise fictional worlds where apparently clear roles quickly become difficult to interpret.
Why read it?
Kafka’s short fiction turns strange performances and ordinary anxieties into unsettling questions about belonging and recognition. Explore Recognition, Communication and Absurdity in this book.
Edition details
- Author / creators: Franz Kafka
- Publisher: Oxford University Press
- Language: English
- Format: Paperback
- Pages: 272
- Edition publication year: 2012
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Book Details
- Author
- Franz Kafka
- Format
- Paperback
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press
- Language
- English
- Pages
- 272
- Publication year
- 2012
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