A Hunger Artist (Franz Kafka)

"A Hunger Artist" is a short story by Franz Kafka first published in Die neue Rundschau in 1922. The story was also included in the collection A Hunger Artist, the last book Kafka prepared for publication, which was printed by Verlag Die Schmiede shortly after his death. The protagonist, a hunger artist who experiences the decline in appreciation of his craft, is typically Kafkaesque: an individual marginalized and victimized by society at large.

Author:: Franz Kafka
Narrator:: Peter Coates
Content:: Unabridged (chapter list)
Length:: 0:25 h
Format:: MP3 download (21 MB)
Language:: English
Publisher:: Strelbytskyy Multimedia Publishing (2025)
Genres:: Classics, Fiction
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01 - A Hunger Artist - Intro	0:09	1 MB
02 - A Hunger Artist	24:34	20 MB
03 - A Hunger Artist - Outro	0:15	1 MB

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Summary

"A Hunger Artist"

is a short story by Franz Kafka first published in Die neue Rundschau in 1922. The story was also included in the collection A Hunger Artist, the last book Kafka prepared for publication, which was printed by Verlag Die Schmiede shortly after his death.

The protagonist, a hunger artist who experiences the decline in appreciation of his craft, is typically Kafkaesque: an individual marginalized and victimized by society at large.

"A Hunger Artist" explores themes such as death, art, isolation, asceticism, spiritual poverty, futility, personal failure and the corruption of human relationships.

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