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The Hunger Artist Author: [Austria] Franz Kafka Publisher: Beijing Yanshan Publishing House Original title: Ein Hungerkünstler
The Hunger Artist Author: [Austria] Franz Kafka Publisher: Beijing Yanshan Publishing House Original title: Ein Hungerkünstler
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Introduction · · · · · ·
This book is one of the six volumes of the Designers' Joint Book Series K Classics. Ein Hungerkünstler (The Hunger Artist) is the last collection of Kafka's works before his death, which includes four novels. At that time, Kafka's health was deteriorating and he was in and out of the sanatorium several times. He completed the proofreading of this collection of works on his sickbed and it was finally published in August 1924, two months after Kafka's death.
The short story of the same name included in the collection, "The Hunger Artist," describes the story of a performer obsessed with the art of hunger, from his heyday to being forgotten by the world, depressed due to lack of understanding, and eventually dying.
In addition, this book also includes ten short stories that Kafka published in newspapers and magazines during his lifetime but have not been published in a collection.
Editor's Recommendation:
★The "K Classics" series covers all of Kafka's short and medium-length works published during his lifetime. It also includes 6 of Kafka's unpublished posthumous works, Kafka's will, and Kafka's chronology.
★8 works are unique to Tong Yali's translation, among which 3 short essays are published in simplified Chinese for the first time.
★ Peter Mendelsund, the world's top book cover designer, is in charge of the cover design, creating "a work of art in the book". His design was described by the Wall Street Journal as "the most recognizable and representative design of contemporary novel covers". "K Classics" breaks the heavy and simple style of Kafka's previous books and is full of avant-garde feeling; abstract graphics and bright colors give Kafka's works new vitality.
★Direct translation from German, single translator. Compared with the popular compilations on the market, the language style of the "K Classics" series is more unified; direct translation from German, purely restores the essence of Kafka's works.
About the Author · · · · · ·
Franz Kafka (1883-1924)
A famous Austrian novelist, he is regarded as a pioneer and master of Western modernist literature along with French writer Marcel Proust and Irish writer James Joyce.
Born into a Jewish merchant family, he lived in Czechoslovakia under the rule of the Austro-Hungarian Empire. He loved writing all his life, but most of his works were not published during his lifetime. After he died of tuberculosis, his manuscripts were compiled and published by his good friend Max Brod, which shocked the world.
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