''A Hunger Artist'' (german: Ein Hungerkünstler) is the collection of four short stories by
Franz Kafka
Franz Kafka (3 July 1883 – 3 June 1924) was a German-speaking Bohemian novelist and short-story writer, widely regarded as one of the major figures of 20th-century literature. His work fuses elements of realism and the fantastic. It ty ...
published in Germany in 1924, the last collection that Kafka himself prepared for publication. Kafka was able to correct the proofs during his final illness but the book was published by ''
Verlag Die Schmiede'' several months after his death.
The English translation by
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was published by
Schocken Books
Schocken Books is a book publishing imprint of Penguin Random House that specializes in Jewish literary works. Originally established in 1931 by Salman Schocken as Schocken Verlag in Berlin, the company later moved to Palestine and then the U ...
in 1948 in the collection ''
The Penal Colony''. All individual stories in the collection have also been translated before by various translators.
Contents
* "Erstes Leid" ("
First Sorrow")
* "Eine kleine Frau" ("
A Little Woman")
* "Ein Hungerkünstler" ("
A Hunger Artist
"A Hunger Artist" (German: "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 Kaf ...
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* "Josefine, die Sängerin oder Das Volk der Mäuse" (
Josephine the Singer, or the Mouse Folk")
References
*
1924 short story collections
Books published posthumously
Short story collections by Franz Kafka
Schocken Books books
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