A Hunger Artist (collection)
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A Hunger Artist is the collection of 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 ilness 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.
Franz Kafka
Franz Kafka was a culturally influential German-language author of short stories and novels. Contemporary critics and academics, including Vladimir Nabokov, regard Kafka as one of the best writers of the 20th century...
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 ilness but the book was published by Verlag Die Schmiede several months after his death.
The English translation by Willa and Edwin Muir
Edwin Muir
Edwin Muir was an Orcadian poet, novelist and translator born on a farm in Deerness on the Orkney Islands. He was remembered for his deeply felt and vivid poetry in plain language with few stylistic preoccupations....
was published by Schocken Books
Schocken Books
Schocken Books is a publishing company that was established in Berlin with a publishing office in Prague in 1931 by the Schocken Department Store owner Salman Schocken. It published the writings of Martin Buber, Franz Rosenzweig, Franz Kafka and S. Y...
in 1948 in the collection The Penal Colony
The Penal Colony: Stories and Short Pieces
The Penal Colony: Stories and Short Pieces is a collection of short stories and recollections by Franz Kafka, with additional writings by Max Brod. First published in 1948 by Schocken Books, this volume includes all the works Kafka intended for publication, and published during his lifetime...
. All individual stories in the collection have also been translated before by various translators.
Contents
- "First SorrowFirst Sorrow"First Sorrow" is a short story by Franz Kafka probably written between the fall of 1921 and the spring of 1922. It appeared in Kurt Wolff Verlag's art periodical Genius, III no. 2 and in the Christmas 1923 supplement to the "Prager Presse"...
" - "A Little WomanA Little Woman"A Little Woman" is a short story by Franz Kafka written between December 1923 and the end of January 1924. It was first published in the Easter supplement of Prager Tagblatt on 20 April 1924...
" - "A Hunger ArtistA Hunger Artist"A Hunger Artist" , also translated as "A Fasting Artist" and "A Starvation Artist", is a short story by Franz Kafka published in Die Neue Rundschau in 1922. The story was also included in the collection A Hunger Artist published by Verlag Die Schmiede soon after Kafka's death...
" - "Josephine the Singer, or the Mouse Folk"