Introduction
The hunger artist by Franz Kafka was first published in 1924. The hunger artist expresses the feeling of loss of identity, pervasiveness, guilt and the sense of evil that permeates the sense of ruling powers. It also expresses the unease that Kafka went through during his lifetime. Kafka’s Prague was a civilized cosmopolitan city in Europe but very hostile to Jews. As a Jew in Prague, he distrusts the authority (Kafka 1952). Kafka was segregated from the mainstream society and lived in a ghetto. The hunger artist symbolizes the sufferings that Germans were going through under the reign of Adolf Hitler. ...
