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18 pieces of prose poetry of varying length scattered with wonderful imagery.
I read “A Hunger Artist: Four Stories“ by Franz Kafka last year, it was beautiful though not a happy read but since then I've become more interested in Kafka‘s work.
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pickA Hunger-Artist: Four Stories
I‘m left speechless, my first response is the four stories that make this mini collection are sad as they are beautiful in how they each show the human condition.
The four stories are: First Sorrow; Little Women; A Hunger-Artist; and Josefine the singer, or the Mouse People
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pickTranslated by Michael Hofmann & published in 2020, the seventy-four pieces collected here are absurd sketches, thought experiments, claustrophobic musings & a couple even manage to stand shoulder to shoulder with some of his better work. If you want a kick, look at the customer feedback online of people who, because of the cover design, thought that they had received a copy that was marked up/bled on.
I love unexpected connections between recent reads. What I think that Kafka means in the last line is that during Prometheus Bound the public nature of the punishment is discussed. As Prometheus says, Zeus could have sent him to Tartarus. Yet he had him "shackled to a peak in the Caucasus." I can see why this play, as it's concerned with the nature of punishment, would interest Kafka.
