A Hunger Artist (short story collection)

A Hunger Artist

1st German ed. cover
Author	Franz Kafka
Original title	Ein Hungerkünstler
Translator	Willa and Edwin Muir
Language	German
Genre	Short stories
Publisher	Verlag Die Schmiede
Publication date	1924
Publication place	Germany
Published in English	1948
Media type	Print (hardback)
Original text	Ein Hungerkünstler at German Wikisource

A Hunger Artist (German: Ein Hungerkünstler) is the collection of four short stories by Franz Kafka published in Germany in 1924, the last collection that Kafka himself prepared for publication. Kafka was able to correct the proofs during his final illness 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.

Contents

• "Erstes Leid" ("First Sorrow")
• "Eine kleine Frau" ("A Little Woman")
• "Ein Hungerkünstler" ("A Hunger Artist")
• "Josefine, die Sängerin oder Das Volk der Mäuse" (Josephine the Singer, or the Mouse Folk")

References

• Stach, Reiner (2005). Kafka: The Decisive Years. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. ISBN 0-15-100752-7.