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    A Hunger Artist / Ein Hungerkünstler: Bilingual Edition: English - German / Zweisprachige Ausgabe: Englisch - Deutsch
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    A Hunger Artist / Ein Hungerkünstler: Bilingual Edition: English - German / Zweisprachige Ausgabe: Englisch - Deutsch
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    A Hunger Artist / Ein Hungerkünstler: Bilingual Edition: English - German / Zweisprachige Ausgabe: Englisch - Deutsch

    By Franz Kafka

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    This edition contains the English translation and the original text in German.

    "A Hunger Artist" ("Ein Hungerkünstler") is a short story by Franz Kafka first published in "Die neue Rundschau" in 1922. The story was also included in the collection "A Hunger Artist" ("Ein Hungerkünstler"), the last book Kafka prepared for publication, printed by "Verlag Die Schmiede" after Kafka's death. The protagonist, a hunger artist who experiences the decline in appreciation of his craft, is an archetypical creation of Kafka: an individual marginalized and victimized by society at large. The title of the story has been translated also to "A Fasting Artist" and "A Starvation Artist".

    "Ein Hungerkünstler" ist eine Erzählung von Franz Kafka, die erstmals 1922 in der Zeitung "Die neue Rundschau" erschien. Gleichzeitig ist es der Titel für den 1924 erschienenen Sammelband des Autors, der noch drei weitere Prosatexte enthielt. Drei der vier Erzählungen haben jeweils eine ironische Sicht auf das Künstlerleben zum Inhalt, wobei in zwei Fällen Zirkusfiguren gewählt wurden. Vor und nach der Jahrhundertwende war die Verwendung von Gauklern und Artisten, also Vertreter eher halbseidener Künste, in der Literatur sehr häufig. Siehe bei Frank Wedekind, Rainer Maria Rilke, Charles Baudelaire, Paul Verlaine. Es ist eine bittere Ironie der Kafka-Texte, dass Künstler und Zuschauer sich nicht verstehen können. Den Artisten treibt innerer Zwang; das Publikum will kurzfristige Unterhaltung. Auch die Maus Josefine aus Kafkas letzter Erzählung ist ihrem Publikum fern in ihrer Selbstvergessenheit.
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    PublisherBoD E-Short
    Release dateMar 23, 2015
    ISBN9783734778186
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    A Hunger Artist / Ein Hungerkünstler: Bilingual Edition: English - German / Zweisprachige Ausgabe: Englisch - Deutsch
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    Franz Kafka

    Born in Prague in 1883, the son of a self-made Jewish merchant, Franz Kafka trained as a lawyer and worked in insurance. He published little during his lifetime and lived his life in relative obscurity. He was forced to retire from work in 1917 after being diagnosed with tuberculosis, a debilitating illness which dogged his final years. When he died in 1924 he bequeathed the – mainly unfinished – manuscripts of his novels, stories, letters and diaries to his friend the writer Max Brod with the strict instruction that they should be destroyed. Brod ignored Kafka’s wishes and organised the publication of his work, including The Trial, which appeared in 1925. It is through Brod’s efforts that Kafka is now regarded as one of the greatest novelists of the twentieth century.

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