The Hunger Artists

Author : Franz Kafka
Publisher : Sheba Blake Publishing Corp.
ISBN 13 : 1222378256
Total Pages : 28 pages
Book Rating : 4.52/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Hunger Artist written by Franz Kafka and published by Sheba Blake Publishing Corp.. This book was released on 2022-09-23 with total page 28 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the days when hunger could be cultivated and practiced as an art form, the individuals who practiced it were often put on show for all to see. One man who was so devout in his pursuit of hunger pushed against the boundaries set by the circus that housed him and strived to go longer than forty days without food. As interest in his art began to fade, he pushed the boundaries even further. In this short story about one man's plight to prove his worth, Franz Kafka illustrates the themes of self-hatred, dedication, and spiritual yearning. As part of our mission to publish great works of literary fiction and nonfiction, Sheba Blake Publishing Corp. is extremely dedicated to bringing to the forefront the amazing works of long dead and truly talented authors.

Author : Franz Kafka
Publisher : OUP Oxford
ISBN 13 : 0191627046
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.40/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Hunger Artist and Other Stories written by Franz Kafka and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2012-04-12 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'In recent decades, interest in hunger artists has greatly diminished.' 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 starvation artist. A patient seems to be dying from a metaphysical wound; the war-horse of Alexander the Great steps aside from history and adopts a quiet profession as a lawyer. Fictional meditations on art and artists, and a series of aphorisms that come close to expressing Kafka's philosophy of life, further explore themes that recur in his major novels. Newly translated, and with an invaluable introduction and notes, Kafka's short stories are haunting and unforgettable. ABOUT THE SERIES: For over 100 years Oxford World's Classics has made available the widest range of literature from around the globe. Each affordable volume reflects Oxford's commitment to scholarship, providing the most accurate text plus a wealth of other valuable features, including expert introductions by leading authorities, helpful notes to clarify the text, up-to-date bibliographies for further study, and much more.

Author : Maud Ellmann
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780674331075
Total Pages : 160 pages
Book Rating : 4.79/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Hunger Artists written by Maud Ellmann and published by . This book was released on 2013-10-01 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Eliezer Diamond
Publisher : Oxford University Press on Demand
ISBN 13 : 0195137507
Total Pages : 239 pages
Book Rating : 4.07/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Holy Men and Hunger Artists written by Eliezer Diamond and published by Oxford University Press on Demand. This book was released on 2004 with total page 239 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The existence of ascetic elements within rabbinic Judaism has generally been either overlooked or actually denied. Diamond shows that rabbinic asceticism does indeed exist. This asceticism is mainly secondary, rather than primary, in that the rabbis place no value on self-denial in and of itself.

Author : Michael Kelly
Publisher : Columbia University Press
ISBN 13 : 0231152922
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.21/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Hunger for Aesthetics written by Michael Kelly and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2012 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This title examines the motivations for the critiques that have been applied to the idea of aesthetics and argues that theorists and artists now hunger for a new kind of aesthetics, one better calibrated to contemporary art and its moral and political demands. The book shows how, for decades, aesthetic critiques have often concerned art's treatment of beauty or the autonomy of art. Collectively, these critiques have generated an anti-aesthetic stance that is now prevalent in the contemporary art world.

Author : David Shields
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 0307593231
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.38/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Reality Hunger written by David Shields and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2010-02-23 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A landmark book, “brilliant, thoughtful” (The Atlantic) and “raw and gorgeous” (LA Times), that fast-forwards the discussion of the central artistic issues of our time, from the bestselling author of The Thing About Life Is That One Day You'll Be Dead. Who owns ideas? How clear is the distinction between fiction and nonfiction? Has the velocity of digital culture rendered traditional modes obsolete? Exploring these and related questions, Shields orchestrates a chorus of voices, past and present, to reframe debates about the veracity of memoir and the relevance of the novel. He argues that our culture is obsessed with “reality,” precisely because we experience hardly any, and urgently calls for new forms that embody and convey the fractured nature of contemporary experience.

Author : Flannery O'Connor
Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 0374515360
Total Pages : 581 pages
Book Rating : 4.62/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Complete Stories written by Flannery O'Connor and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 1971 with total page 581 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner of the National Book Award The publication of this extraordinary volume firmly established Flannery O'Connor's monumental contribution to American fiction. There are thirty-one stories here in all, including twelve that do not appear in the only two story collections O'Connor put together in her short lifetime--Everything That Rises Must Converge and A Good Man Is Hard to Find. O'Connor published her first story, "The Geranium," in 1946, while she was working on her master's degree at the University of Iowa. Arranged chronologically, this collection shows that her last story, "Judgement Day"--sent to her publisher shortly before her death—is a brilliantly rewritten and transfigured version of "The Geranium." Taken together, these stories reveal a lively, penetrating talent that has given us some of the most powerful and disturbing fiction of the twentieth century. Also included is an introduction by O'Connor's longtime editor and friend, Robert Giroux.

Author : Patrick Anderson
Publisher : Duke University Press
ISBN 13 : 0822348284
Total Pages : 205 pages
Book Rating : 4.83/5 ( download)

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Download or read book So Much Wasted written by Patrick Anderson and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 2010-10-25 with total page 205 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An analysis of self-starvation as a significant mode of staging political arguments across the institutional domains of the clinic, the gallery, and the prison.

Author : Franz Kafka
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN 13 : 0393635635
Total Pages : 145 pages
Book Rating : 4.38/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Kafkaesque: Fourteen Stories written by Franz Kafka and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2018-09-18 with total page 145 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner of the 2018 Silver Reuben Award for Graphic Novels A Boston Globe and New York Public Library Best Book of the Year In Kafkaesque, Peter Kuper combines stunning artistic technique with shrewd political and social commentary for a mesmerizing interpretation of fourteen iconic Franz Kafka short stories.

Author : Sharman Apt Russell
Publisher : Basic Books
ISBN 13 : 9780465071654
Total Pages : 286 pages
Book Rating : 4.51/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Hunger written by Sharman Apt Russell and published by Basic Books. This book was released on 2006-09-05 with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Every day, we wake up hungry. Every day, we break our fast. Hunger is both a natural and an unnatural human condition. In Hunger, Sharman Apt Russell explores the range of this primal experience. Step by step, Russell takes us through the physiology of hunger, from eighteen hours without food to thirty-six hours to three days to seven days to thirty days. In quiet, elegant prose, she asks a question as big as history and as everyday as skipping lunch: How does hunger work?