A Hunger Artist
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A Hunger Artist is a short story by Franz Kafka that explores themes of alienation, art, and suffering through the tale of a professional faster who performs public starvation as a form of expression.
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| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | short story ⓘ |
| author | Franz Kafka NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| centralMotif | public fasting ⓘ |
| collection | A Hunger Artist (short story collection) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | Austria-Hungary NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| ending | death of the hunger artist ⓘ |
| firstPublicationYear | 1922 ⓘ |
| firstPublishedIn | Die neue Rundschau NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| genre |
existential fiction
ⓘ
modernist fiction ⓘ |
| hasAdaptation |
film adaptations
ⓘ
radio adaptations ⓘ theatrical adaptations ⓘ |
| hasCharacter |
circus manager
ⓘ
impresario ⓘ panther ⓘ spectators ⓘ |
| hasTranslation | A Hunger Artist (English title) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| includedIn | collected works of Franz Kafka ⓘ |
| influenced | literary criticism on art and asceticism ⓘ |
| literaryForm | prose ⓘ |
| literaryMovement | Modernism NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| mainCharacter | the hunger artist NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| narrativePointOfView | third-person narration ⓘ |
| notableFor |
exploration of the artist’s alienation
ⓘ
symbolic and allegorical style ⓘ |
| originalLanguage | German ⓘ |
| originalTitle | Ein Hungerkünstler NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| partOf | Franz Kafka’s late works ⓘ |
| protagonistOccupation | professional faster ⓘ |
| publicationYearInCollection | 1924 ⓘ |
| replacedBy | panther in the cage ⓘ |
| setting |
public exhibition cage
ⓘ
traveling circus ⓘ |
| subjectMatter |
performance art
ⓘ
public spectacle ⓘ self-denial ⓘ |
| theme |
alienation
ⓘ
art and suffering ⓘ asceticism ⓘ isolation ⓘ misunderstanding of the artist ⓘ spectacle and entertainment culture ⓘ the relationship between artist and audience ⓘ the search for meaning ⓘ |
| timePeriodOfStory | late 19th to early 20th century ⓘ |
| workOf | Franz Kafka NERFINISHED ⓘ |
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