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A Hunger Artist (short story collection)

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Original title
  
Ein Hungerkünstler

Language
  
German

Published in English
  
1948

Originally published
  
1924

Publisher
  
Verlag Die Schmiede

Translator
  
Edwin Muir

Country
  
Germany

Publication date
  
1924

Media type
  
Print (Hardback)

Author
  
Franz Kafka

Genre
  
Short story

Published in english
  
1948

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Franz Kafka books, Short Stories, Classical Studies books

A Hunger Artist (German: Ein Hungerkünstler) is the collection of four short stories by Franz Kafka published in Germany in 1924, the last collection that Kafka himself prepared for the 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 Willa and Edwin Muir was published by Schocken Books 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")
  • "Josefine, die Sängerin oder Das Volk der Mäuse" (Josephine the Singer, or the Mouse Folk")
  • References

    A Hunger Artist (short story collection) Wikipedia