A Hunger Artist

August 2022 Hoopla Bonus Borrows Recommendation

This story hits differently when you know Kafka was dying of starvation while he was writing this book.

Was Franz Kafka writing about his own life when he wrote this? A Hunger Artist is his last work and he died shortly after editing it.

This is a story of a man who lives his life in the moment through suffering. While he suffers he's given great attention. While he physically starves himself, the world feeds his ego. Until they don't, and he has forgotten how to stop suffering.