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Introduction

"A Hunger Artist" (Ein Hungerkünstler), also translated as "A Fasting Artist" and "A Starvation Artist", is a short story by Franz Kafka published in Die Neue Rundschau in 1922. The protagonist is an archetypical creation of Kafka, an individual marginalized and victimized by society at large.