Ein Hungerkünstler

Name: Ein Hungerkünstler
Author: Franz Kafka
ISBN: 9781787363632

Author: Franz Kafka
Language: German
Length: 18 pages
ISBN: 9781787363632
Published: 10 February 2022
Imprint: Sovereign

Franz Kafka
Kafka
alienation
existentialism
psychological
brutality
quest
mystical
transformation
absurd

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Description

In the short story "Ein Hungerkünstler" by Franz Kafka, protagonist Georg is a man that has a peculiar talent to resist hunger. One day he decides to put his exceptional ability on display and has a show where he goes up against a lion in a man-vs-beast type of competition. He loses because he gets hungry and starts eating the hay covering the cage's ground. This is due to his inability to resist hunger for any length of time.

Author

Franz Kafka (1883–1924) is the foundational voice of a whole modern territory — the literature of systems, shame, and waking dread. He specialised in situations that feel both dreamlike and bureaucratically precise: a man becomes an insect overnight; another is arrested without knowing the charge; a surveyor never reaches the castle that governs him.

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