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A Hunger Artist and Other Stories

A Hunger Artist and Other Stories

A Hunger Artist and Other Stories

By Franz Kafka
Translated by Joyce Crick

Kafka published two collections of short stories in his lifetime, A Country Doctor: Little Tales (1919) and A Hunger Artist: Four Stories (1924). Both collections are included in their entirety in this edition, which also contains other uncollected stories and a selection of posthumously published works that have become part of the Kafka canon. Enigmatic, satirical, often bleakly humorous, these stories approach human experience at a tangent: a singing mouse, an ape, an inquisitive dog, and a paranoid burrowing creature are among the protagonists, as well as the professional hunger artist. The tales are among Kafka's best-known, haunting and compelling satires on the human condition, on art and artists, and on life itself, which complement his major fictions.

This volume completes an Oxford World's Classics set of five Kafka works, in distinctive complementary cover designs. The edition includes: introduction, textual note, translator's note, bibliography, chronology and explanatory notes.

Paperback
272 pages
Oxford University Press, 2012
A Hunger Artist originally published in 1924
7.7 x 0.7 x 5.1 inches
ISBN 9780199600922
Short Stories

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