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A Hunger Artist
A Hunger Artist
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What Members Thought

Franky
Sep 14, 2024 rated it really liked it  ·  review of another edition
Shelves: morality, short-stories, classics, 2024-reading-challenge, philosophy, kindle
“In the last decades interest in hunger artists has declined considerably. Where in earlier days there was good money to be earned putting on major productions of this sort under one’s management, nowadays that is totally impossible.”

This was my first venture into the world of Frank Kafka and, although a small sample size, “A Hunger Artist” has quite a bit going on under the surface that give it a deeper and richer meaning symbolically.

There is something of the spectacle to the hunger artist’s ...more
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Laura
Nov 25, 2014 rated it liked it
Shelves: fiction-20th-century, audio-books, librivox, short-stories, czech-literature, read-2014
Free download available at LibriVox. ...more
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Erica Renée
May 20, 2009 rated it really liked it
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Clio
Jan 05, 2012 rated it really liked it
Shelves: best-stories, classics
Mia Redgrave
Dec 17, 2013 rated it it was amazing
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Candace
Oct 16, 2022 marked it as to-read
Kallie
Sep 01, 2023 marked it as to-read
caroline
Jun 21, 2024 rated it it was amazing
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