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Concepts: Franz Kafka, Hunger, The Metamorphosis, Malnutrition, Fasting, Knut Hamsun, Famine

AN analysis of the the use of paradox, masochism and absurdity in A Hunger Artist.

“For he alone knew, what no other initiate knew, how easy it was to fast. It was the easiest thing in the world.” Kafka’s “A Hunger Artist” What does it mean to willfully fast, or to deny hunger, the most fundamental of human drives? The…

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Kafika's ape:Heel or Hero?

In “A Report to an Academy,” the marvelous transformation of the fictional ape Rotpeter offers striking insight into human adaptive behavior, and blurs and then elucidates the differences between man and ape. The short story, written as a letter by Rotpeter, tells of the transition…

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The theme of life, existence and conciousness

In his short story “A Hunger Artist,” Franz Kafka uses the extreme example of the fictional hunger artist to discuss the dichotomy between art and life. Usually, an artist uses his life to create his art. Thus, an artist alienated from the world will use…

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Relgious Imagery in The Hunger Arist

In A Hunger Artist by Franz Kafka, one can argue the character of the Hunger Artist is an absurdist anti-hero parallel to the heroic figure of Jesus Christ in the Holy Bible. The Hunger Artist is a narration of a “starving, dying art”, and one…

A Hunger Artist1.5 Pages