A Hunger Artist

Franz Kafka  ·  1924

 ·  classics   short-stories   philosophy   german-literature

A Hunger Artist cover
Cover of A Hunger Artist on the Open Library.

The last collection Kafka prepared for publication, gathering “A Hunger Artist” alongside “First Sorrow,” “A Little Woman,” and “Josephine the Singer.” The title story follows a professional faster whose art is slowly rendered obsolete, a quietly devastating parable about devotion, misunderstood vocation, and the artist starved of an audience.