A Hunger Artist and Other Stories

By Franz Kafka, Joyce Crick (translator),

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'In recent decades, interest in hunger artists has greatly diminished.'

Kafka published two collections of short stories in his lifetime, A Country Doctor: Little Tales (1919) and A Hunger Artist: Four Stories (1924). Both collections are included in their entirety in this edition, which also contains other, uncollected stories and…

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The title story, A Hunger Artist, affected me in such a stunning and mysterious way. It just floored me and got under my skin. I felt distraught for several days. When I first read this story, I had just begun my MFA in creative writing at the Bluegrass Writers Studio in 2014, and I was interested in examining why certain works had an impact on me as a reader and how I could learn the writing craft from them.

I re-read the story several times to try and figure out the source of its power but could not. The…

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