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Who is The hunger artist from The Basic Kafka and what is their importance? The_Basic_Kafka English & Literature The hunger artist | The Basic Kafka

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The hunger artist appears in the short story, The Hunger Artist. He garners an inordinate amount of attention by publicly starving himself. In the end, he starves himself to death because hunger artistry has gone out of fashion...... he no longer has an audience.

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