Franz Kafka’s “Fasting Artist” enjoyed the spotlight; people from all over coming to see the completion of his Forty days of fasting, opening the cage, greeting him with cheers, doctors would rush into the cage checking the health of the successful faster. ... Throughout Kafka’s “Fasting Artist” it becomes clearer and clearer that it is not his love of Fasting that keeps him from eating, but a psychological problem that makes it impossible for him to stop his Fasting ways. ... ”( Kafka 211) The Artist was disgusted with the faith people lacked in his fasting for the simple reason that he would never have eaten the smallest portion of food during a fast because the “honour of his art forbade it”(210). ...
Kafka’s Fasting Artist obviously had a problem, not recognized by his family, his manager, and by the management of the circus who hired the likes of his fasting.
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