Hunger on the stage
Auteur :
Angel-Perez, Elisabeth
ISBN :
9781847185952
Date de publication :
1 juin 2008
Dimensions :
21,2 x 14,8 x 2,5 cm
Poids :
499 g
Format :
With dust jacket
Langue :
Anglais
Pays d'origine :
Grande Bretagne
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.