Talk:A Hunger Artist

added public domain translation --amazoneveryday

Accuracy?
This article says that Kafka got himself an office job he hated in order to support his family. That's absolutely wrong - Kafka's father was a prosperous merchant, and Kafka himself was never married, nor did he have any children so he only needed to support himself, if even that.


 * Yes, it's unsupported drivel from some essay or exam cheat site. --Tony Sidaway 20:43, 26 March 2007 (UTC)

Copyright?
I've created an analysis section using this source. The information appears to be copyrighted, but it falls under "fair-use", right? Sofeil 15:12, 10 December 2006 (UTC)


 * No. I've removed a lot of hack work that was copied wholesale from some crappy essay website.  In general, analysis should refer to recognised scholars in reliable published works. The copied material was, needless to say, an infringement of copyright. --Tony Sidaway 20:41, 26 March 2007 (UTC)

Victimized and Marginalized by Society?
The article claims that "The protagonist is an archetypical creation of Kafka, an individual marginalised and victimised by society at large." I disagree - I think it is fairly clear from the story that the hunger artist separated himself from society. He says "I couldn’t find a food which I enjoyed. If I had found that, believe me, I would not have made a spectacle of myself and would have eaten to my heart’s content, like you and everyone else.” [emphasis mine]  I'm no great writer so I hesitate to change the article myself but I think someone else maybe should.  I believe it is generally a misreading of Kafka to think of his characters as loners and outcasts but that is perhaps more open to argument generally than it is in this particular case.  Cyclopsface 05:31, 6 November 2007 (UTC)