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A HUNGER-ARTIST

A HUNGER-ARTIST

FRANZ KAFKA

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Publisher:
PENGUIN
Year of publication:
2025
Subject:
Classic fiction
ISBN:
978-0-241-74692-9
Pages:
144
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The whole town got involved with the hunger-artist; from day to day of his starving, people's participation grew; everyone wanted to see the hunger-artist at least once a day; on the later days there were season-ticket holders who sat for days on end in front of his little cage Reading these stories by the master of the absurd is like entering a dreamworld in which nothing, and yet somehow everything, makes sense.

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