Search
Log in
  • Home

  • Categories

  • Audiobooks

  • E-books

  • For kids

  • Top lists

  • Help

  • Download app

  • Use campaign code

  • Redeem gift card

  • Try free now
  • Log in
  • Language

    🇫🇮 Suomi

    • FI
    • EN

    🇧🇪 Belgique

    • FR
    • EN

    🇩🇰 Danmark

    • DK
    • EN

    🇩🇪 Deutschland

    • DE
    • EN

    🇪🇸 España

    • ES
    • EN

    🇫🇷 France

    • FR
    • EN

    🇳🇱 Nederland

    • NL
    • EN

    🇳🇴 Norge

    • NO
    • EN

    🇦🇹 Österreich

    • AT
    • EN

    🇨🇭 Schweiz

    • DE
    • EN

    🇸🇪 Sverige

    • SE
    • EN
  1. Books
  2. Fiction
  3. Short stories

Read and listen for free for 42 days!

Cancel anytime

Try free now
3.7(19)

A Hunger Artist

In the days when hunger could be cultivated and practiced as an art form, the individuals who practiced it were often put on show for all to see. One man who was so devout in his pursuit of hunger pushed against the boundaries set by the circus that housed him and strived to go longer than forty days without food. As interest in his art began to fade, he pushed the boundaries even further. In this short story about one man's plight to prove his worth, Franz Kafka illustrates the themes of self-hatred, dedication, and spiritual yearning.


Author:

  • Franz Kafka

Narrator:

  • Nick Sullivan

Format:

  • Audiobook
  • E-book

Duration:

  • 27 min
  • 11 pages

Language:

English

Categories:

  • Fiction
  • Short stories
  • Classics and poetry
  • Classics

More by Franz Kafka

Skip the list
  1. Kootut kertomukset

    Franz Kafka

    audiobook
  2. Letters to Milena

    Franz Kafka

    book
  3. The Metamorphosis

    Franz Kafka

    audiobookbook
  4. Metamorphosis - Audiobook

    Franz Kafka, Classic Audiobooks

    audiobook
  5. Amerikka

    Franz Kafka

    audiobookbook
  6. Oikeusjuttu

    Franz Kafka

    audiobook
  7. 50 Timeless Masterpieces (Volume 1) : Essential Classics for a Rich Literary Journey

    Homer, Sun Tzu, Plato, Dante, Shakespeare, Miguel de Cervantes, John Milton, Daniel Defoe, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Jane Austen, Nikolai Gogol, Emily Brontë, Mary Shelley, Alexandre Dumas, Fyodor Dostoevsky, Charles Dickens, Victor Hugo, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Gustave Flaubert, Leo Tolstoy, Henrik Ibsen, Herman Melville, Mark Twain, Robert Louis Stevenson, Arthur Conan Doyle, Raymond Chandler, H. G. Wells, Joseph Conrad, Rudyard Kipling, Louisa May Alcott, L. Frank Baum, L. M. Montgomery, T. S. Eliot, Franz Kafka, James Joyce, Virginia Woolf, C. S. Lewis, Ernest Hemingway, Walt Whitman, Jack Kerouac, John Steinbeck, William Faulkner, Kate Chopin, Zora Neale Hurston, Margaret Mitchell, Sylvia Plath, Thomas Mann, Albert Camus, George Orwell

    book
  8. The Castle

    Franz Kafka

    audiobook
  9. A Country Doctor

    Franz Kafka

    audiobookbook
  10. In the Penal Colony

    Franz Kafka

    audiobookbook
  11. The Great Wall of China

    Franz Kafka

    audiobookbook
  12. A Report for an Academy

    Franz Kafka

    audiobookbook

Others have also read

Skip the list
  1. Heinäsirkan aika

    Nathanael West

    book
  2. Evidence of Things Unseen : A Novel

    Marianne Wiggins

    book
  3. Loving Donovan

    Bernice L. McFadden, Terry McMillan

    audiobook
  4. The Street

    H. P. Lovecraft

    audiobook
  5. Ihmisten kevät

    Toivo Pekkanen

    book
  6. Animaatioita

    Eero Koistinen

    book
  7. Jane Austen's Juvenilia (Golden Deer Classics)

    Jane Austen

    audiobook
  8. Journey Into Darkness

    John E. Douglas, Mark Olshaker

    book
  9. B. J. Harrison Reads The Mark of Zorro

    Johnston Mcculley

    audiobook
  10. The Curious Case of Benjamin Button

    F. Scott Fitzgerald

    audiobookbook
  11. The Curious Case of Benjamin Button

    F. Scott Fitzgerald

    audiobook
  12. The Sorrows of Werther, Book 1 (Unabridged)

    Johann Wolfgang

    audiobook

  • 353 books

    Franz Kafka

    Franz Kafka was born in Prague in 1883, where he lived until his death in 1924. Widely esteemed as one of the twentieth century's most important writers, he is the author of the novels The Trial and The Castle.

    Read more

Help and contact


About us

  • Our story
  • Career
  • Press
  • Accessibility
  • Partner with us
  • Investor relations
  • Instagram
  • Facebook

Explore

  • Categories
  • Audiobooks
  • E-books
  • Magazines
  • For kids
  • Top lists

Popular categories

  • Crime
  • Biographies and reportage
  • Fiction
  • Feel-good and romance
  • Personal development
  • Children's books
  • True stories
  • Sleep and relaxation

Nextory

Copyright © 2025 Nextory AB

Privacy Policy · Terms ·
Excellent4.3 out of 5