A Hunger Artist | Kafka's Life as Seen in A Hunger Artist
Brent has a Ph.D. in American Culture from the University of Michigan. In the following essay, she discusses possible interpretations of ‘‘A Hunger Artist’’ in light of key factors in Kafka’s life.
‘‘Kafka’s Hunger, Kafka’s Art’’
Kafka was a master of the enigmatic. In his book, Everyone’s Darling: Kafka and the Critics of His Short Fiction, Franz R. Kempf states that, ‘‘Kafka critics only agree on one thing, and that is that they are not in agreement.’’ Kempf points out that Kafka valued this resistance in his work to specific interpretations, as he ‘‘understood writing to be a consciously created ambiguity.’’ Walter Benjamin has even asserted that Kafka ‘‘took all conceivable precautions against the interpretation of his...
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