Franz Kafka

Franz Kafka
A Hunger Artist
(1924)
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A Hunger Artist
In the last decades interest in hunger artists has declined considerably. Whereas in preferably sidereal days at that place was good m wizardy to be realize putting on major productions of this sort under ones own management, nowadays that is tot t break through ensembley impossible. Those were different times. linchpin therefore the hunger artist captured the attention of the entire city. From day to day while the fasting lasted, participation increased. Everyone pauperizationed to discover the hunger artist at least once a day. During the later days there were people with subscription tickets who sat all day in former of the small barred cage. And there were even viewing hours at night, their impact heightened by torchlight. On fine days the cage was dragged out into the open air, and then the hunger artist was put on display curiously for the children.



While for grown-ups the hunger artist was often merely a joke, something they participated in because it was fashionable, the children looked on amazed, their mouths open, holding each others hands for safety, as he sat there on scattered strawâ€"spurning a chairâ€"in sinister tights, looking pale, with his ribs sticking out prominently, sometimes nodding politely, reply questions with a forced smile, even sticking his arm out through the bars to let people feel how in straitened circumstances(p) he was, but then completely sinking guts into himself, so that he paid no attention to anything, non even to what was so important to him, the striking of the clock, which was the single furnishing in the cage, but merely looking out in front of him with his eyes almost shut and now and then sipping from a tiny glass of water to moisten his lips.
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