Essays on 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...

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...

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...

Happiness is a sense of well-being, contentment and satisfaction. It is a kind of feeling. Happiness is subjective and difficult to measure. The interpretation of happiness varies from person to person. There are many factors that can affect one’s happiness. For example, our thoughts, health,...