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  <title><![CDATA[A Hunger Artist]]></title>
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  <default_description>four stories, tr Kevin Blahut, illus H Vlcnovska </default_description>
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  <original_publication_day type="integer">15</original_publication_day>
  <original_publication_month type="integer">1</original_publication_month>
  <original_publication_year type="integer">1996</original_publication_year>
  <original_title>A Hunger Artist</original_title>
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      <name><![CDATA[Franz Kafka]]></name>
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  <read_at>Fri Nov 13 00:00:00 -0800 2009</read_at>
  <date_added>Fri Nov 06 11:07:50 -0800 2009</date_added>
  <date_updated>Fri Nov 13 22:21:59 -0800 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[Kafka has these wild eyes that burn out every photograph of him.  He talks about &quot;the tremendous world in his head&quot; and those eyes just beam out the intensity and sensitivity that was his tragedy.  Here is a man who felt &quot;I am made up of literature and nothing else&quot; and yet he di...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/76929029">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="21718473">
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    <name><![CDATA[Vidal]]></name>
    <location><![CDATA[Monterrey, Mexico]]></location>        
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      <rating>5</rating>
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  <read_at>Fri Mar 14 00:00:00 -0700 2008</read_at>
  <date_added>Tue May 06 12:55:19 -0700 2008</date_added>
  <date_updated>Tue May 06 13:11:31 -0700 2008</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[El cuento empieza cuando ya la figura del artista está en decadencia (el artista del hambre, se entiende, no se confunda con cualquier otro artista). Su espectáculo consiste en ayunar delante de los espectadores, pero ya a nadie le interesa su arte. Al final nadie lo recuerda, pero el sigue ayunan...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/21718473">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="10926319">
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    <name><![CDATA[Faith]]></name>
    <location><![CDATA[Brooklyn, NY]]></location>        
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  <date_added>Sun Dec 23 15:04:25 -0800 2007</date_added>
  <date_updated>Sun Dec 23 15:04:25 -0800 2007</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[Dear this book, <br/><br/>It's not you, it's me. I just hate you a lot. I hate you so much that it probably comes from some deep-down place where I actually hate myself for not being able to understand why people have been throwing this dang story at me with regularly repeating intervals for the p...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/10926319">more...</a>]]></body>
    <url><![CDATA[http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/10926319]]></url>
</review>
    <review id="69728952">
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    <name><![CDATA[Hans]]></name>
    <location><![CDATA[Japan]]></location>        
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      <rating>4</rating>
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  <read_at>Wed Sep 02 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
  <date_added>Tue Sep 01 15:36:47 -0700 2009</date_added>
  <date_updated>Wed Sep 02 07:03:56 -0700 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[Artists suffer for their craft only to be misunderstood and unappreciated in their time.  This story reminded me of how many modern musicians are told what to and how to perform to be as appealing to as broad a audience as possible.  Marketing driving art and in so doing making a lie and mockery of ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/69728952">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="11315264">
    <user id="665761">
    <name><![CDATA[Tommy]]></name>
    <location><![CDATA[Gaithersburg, MD]]></location>        
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      <rating>4</rating>
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  <read_at>Wed Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 1992</read_at>
  <date_added>Sun Dec 30 21:07:38 -0800 2007</date_added>
  <date_updated>Sun Dec 30 21:08:25 -0800 2007</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[i read this in german.... maybe that's why i didn't understand it so well.  still liked it.]]></body>
    <url><![CDATA[http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/11315264]]></url>
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    <review id="47034604">
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    <name><![CDATA[Hannah]]></name>
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      <rating>4</rating>
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  <read_at>Mon Sep 01 00:00:00 -0700 2008</read_at>
  <date_added>Sat Feb 21 05:39:28 -0800 2009</date_added>
  <date_updated>Fri Mar 06 11:11:27 -0800 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[This is one that I definitely need to read again - there are so many undercurrents of emotional statement going on in the book, that I think there's no possible way I could have caught all of them. It does make you think - the more I read of Kafka, the more I realize what a different level of genius...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/47034604">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="9140986">
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    <name><![CDATA[Mitra]]></name>
    <location><![CDATA[tehran, Iran, Islamic Republic of]]></location>        
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  <date_added>Thu Nov 15 04:12:13 -0800 2007</date_added>
  <date_updated>Thu Sep 04 02:17:54 -0700 2008</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[دقیقا یادم نیست چندمین داستان کوتاهی بود که ترجمه کردم شاید چهارمی ولی خوب یادمه وقتم خیلی کم بود خلاصه با کلی بد بختی چهار  پنج روزه تموم شد.وقتی تموم شد کلی ذوق کردم ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/9140986">more...</a>]]></body>
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</review>
    <review id="44009601">
    <user id="1942781">
    <name><![CDATA[Cody]]></name>
    <location><![CDATA[Burbank, CA]]></location>        
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  <date_added>Thu Jan 22 19:26:32 -0800 2009</date_added>
  <date_updated>Fri Jan 23 23:24:42 -0800 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[One of my favorite Kafka stories because it is short and to the point! This is he story of the man's experiences of being a side-show act.  He talks about the people who did not beleive that he was starving and what he did to prove them wrong. It tells his motivation for being a hunger artist. It ma...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/44009601">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="43193955">
    <user id="1913739">
    <name><![CDATA[Eric]]></name>
    <location><![CDATA[Chelsea, MI]]></location>        
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  <date_added>Thu Jan 15 18:57:44 -0800 2009</date_added>
  <date_updated>Thu Jan 15 18:59:08 -0800 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[It's odd when a story speaks to me both clearly and so depressingly.  It struck the right chord when I read it apparently.  Something connected and I felt so close to the main character and also so disgusted by him.]]></body>
    <url><![CDATA[http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/43193955]]></url>
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    <review id="53300270">
    <user id="2219846">
    <name><![CDATA[Dean]]></name>
    <location><![CDATA[Brooklyn, NY]]></location>        
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  <date_added>Sun Apr 19 21:02:45 -0700 2009</date_added>
  <date_updated>Sun Apr 19 21:16:51 -0700 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[My favorite Kafka story. Relatable in a way to any kind of performing, especially if you also have an eating disorder.]]></body>
    <url><![CDATA[http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/53300270]]></url>
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    <review id="38084461">
    <user id="1684384">
    <name><![CDATA[Erik]]></name>
    <location><![CDATA[Los Angeles, CA]]></location>        
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      <rating>4</rating>
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  <read_at>Sun Nov 30 00:00:00 -0800 2008</read_at>
  <date_added>Tue Nov 18 16:26:30 -0800 2008</date_added>
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    <body><![CDATA[A perfect short story. Is the hunger artist not 'the artist,' often misunderstood, isolated, and relying on a capricious and naive audience? And of course the artist has no choice.]]></body>
    <url><![CDATA[http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/38084461]]></url>
</review>
    <review id="55444475">
    <user id="2300570">
    <name><![CDATA[Yuan]]></name>
    <location><![CDATA[Lanzhou, 15, China]]></location>        
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  <read_at>Sat Nov 01 00:00:00 -0800 2003</read_at>
  <date_added>Fri May 08 21:27:21 -0700 2009</date_added>
  <date_updated>Sat May 09 21:21:51 -0700 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[This fiction tought me how to write.]]></body>
    <url><![CDATA[http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/55444475]]></url>
</review>
    <review id="76291092">
    <user id="2896046">
    <name><![CDATA[Virginia]]></name>
    <location><![CDATA[Fort Knox, KY]]></location>        
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      <rating>5</rating>
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  <date_added>Sat Oct 31 07:47:48 -0700 2009</date_added>
  <date_updated>Sat Oct 31 07:47:48 -0700 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[Kafka is like no other!]]></body>
    <url><![CDATA[http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/76291092]]></url>
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    <review id="40540481">
    <user id="1112265">
    <name><![CDATA[Tamera]]></name>
    <location><![CDATA[Monaca, PA]]></location>        
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      <rating>4</rating>
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  <read_at>Fri Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 1999</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[Very intresting....]]></body>
    <url><![CDATA[http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/40540481]]></url>
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    <review id="3183304">
    <user id="142161">
    <name><![CDATA[David]]></name>
    <location><![CDATA[The United States]]></location>        
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      <rating>5</rating>
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  <date_added>Tue Jul 17 14:40:53 -0700 2007</date_added>
  <date_updated>Tue Jul 17 14:59:20 -0700 2007</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[perhaps it is in my reading the omnivore's dilemma that brings me back to this gem. you know. that i am preoccupied with food currently. or maybe because the stories i write in my notebook get tied up with twine and set out with the big garbage. the idea of the unappreciated artist. the suffering ar...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/3183304">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="21099913">
    <user id="600126">
    <name><![CDATA[Katherine]]></name>
    <location><![CDATA[San Francisco, CA]]></location>        
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      <rating>4</rating>
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  <date_added>Sun Apr 27 10:41:13 -0700 2008</date_added>
  <date_updated>Sun Apr 27 11:13:22 -0700 2008</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[In the short story &quot;A Hunger Artist,&quot; Kafka takes an old one-liner and turns it into a disturbing meditation on the role of the artist as public spectacle. An artist willingly starves himself to death in a carnival - but to what end? This is one of those stories that seems to signify somet...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/21099913">more...</a>]]></body>
    <url><![CDATA[http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/21099913]]></url>
</review>
    <review id="55605293">
    <user id="2304772">
    <name><![CDATA[Justin]]></name>
    <location><![CDATA[Minneapolis, MN]]></location>        
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  <read_at>Wed Sep 01 00:00:00 -0700 2004</read_at>
  <date_added>Sun May 10 16:28:58 -0700 2009</date_added>
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    <body><![CDATA[Kafka is interesting and he wrote what he wanted.]]></body>
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    <review id="21110633">
    <user id="90797">
    <name><![CDATA[Jeff]]></name>
    <location><![CDATA[53184, Kyrgyzstan]]></location>        
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  <read_at>Tue Apr 28 00:00:00 -0800 1908</read_at>
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  <date_updated>Mon Apr 28 13:11:52 -0700 2008</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[as always, kafka speaks for the dispossessed, the helpless, the hopeless, putting them into such situations as have always been allegorically true, but which under the present regime are becoming more and more plausible realities--pole sitting, marathon dancing, public starvation for sustenance: com...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/21110633">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="868624">
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    <name><![CDATA[Amy]]></name>
    <location><![CDATA[The United States]]></location>        
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    <body><![CDATA[First of all I would like to thank my professor for making me buy this &quot;gem&quot;. This is a collection of short stories by fanz kafka. It is an expensive little book but just the most wonderful little thing. I have read one short story out of it. You have to enjoy Franz Kafka's writing in orde...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/868624">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[What I learned from this book: one: Kafka was a twisted genius, and two: make sure you appreciate your own work, because no one else may ever appreciate it as much as you do. Brilliant.]]></body>
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