12/31/2023 0 Comments Franz kafka quotes food![]() Or perhaps these final words are Kafka’s absurdist joke for the reader, a darkly humorous challenge to find the meaning in the story that the public never truly found in the hunger artist, and that he never found in them. Alternately, it could be a somewhat poetic statement about the artist’s fundamental disconnection from the rest of society-the “food” he was looking for was human connection and understanding, and he never was able to find that. It’s difficult to know what the reader should make of the hunger artist’s claim that he only fasts because he can’t find any food that he likes-that’s patently not true when the rest of the story is taken to account. A book must be the ax for the frozen sea within us.In the fight between you and the world, back the world.Youth is happy because it has the ability to see. Do not even listen, simply wait, be quiet still and solitary. Franz Kafka You do not need to leave your room. ![]() Franz Kafka A first sign of the beginning of understanding is the wish to die. The hunger artist seems confused, but what he does actually makes sense-his whole life he’s been a contradiction, trying to go beyond society but always needing its attention to give his art meaning. So long as you have food in your mouth, you have solved all questions for the time being. The staff are just trying to appease the hunger artist, saying on the one hand they respect him and on the other they don’t (depending on what he seems to want them to say). Franz Kafka tags: franz-kafka, kafka 105 likes Like Self-control is something for which I do not strive. Franz Kafka, The Metamorphosis 2624 likes Like As Gregor Samsa awoke one morning from uneasy dreams he found himself transformed in his bed into a gigantic insect. This is further exemplified by the exchange between the hunger artist and the staff at the end. What an idea Just think of how many thoughts a blanket smothers while one lies alone in bed, and how many unhappy dreams it keeps warm. I cannot make anyone understand what is happening inside me. No doubt this has been the greatest fast of his life-but it’s also the most meaningless, because nobody’s watching. He’s now less valuable than the cage that contains him, and it’s only because a member of staff thinks the cage should be put to use that he is discovered in his terrible state. The hunger artist is now so worthless to the circus that he’s been completely forgotten. ![]()
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