A Hunger Artist and Other Stories

Title: A Hunger Artist and Other Stories Author: Franz Kafka ISBN: 9780199600922 Publisher: Oxford University Press Published: 2012 Binding: Paperback Language: English Edition: 1 Section: Fiction | Classics Publisher Description: 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 t