Hunger on the Stage - Angel-Perez, Elisabeth (Cambridge Scholars Pub., 2008)
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In his short story "The Hunger Artist," Kafka imagined the theatrical career of a "professional faster" whose performance consists merely in displaying his own starving body before an avid audience. Kafka thus paradoxically suggested that hunger, mere emptiness working its way through declining bodies, may be a privileged theatrical object. Hunger often signals an anchorage in socio-historical reality, and invites extreme situations on stage, articulating large-scale cataclysms (famines, the ..
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