An Illustration for Kafka’s Ein Hungerkünstler (The Hunger Artist) by Andrzej Ploski, circa 1983, which struck my fancy. You can see the full series, as well as Ploski’s illustrations for many of Kafka’s short works here. Note that the stories appear in their Polish translation. If you don’t read Polish but would like to read the corresponding stories as well I can recommend The Kafka Project.
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Nie roz?mieszaj mnie. Ha!
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I love Kafka - as long as I don’t have to read any of his stories. They always give me major depressions. Great art tho ...
the drawings are wonderful, he’s got his own strong and interesting lines.
I seem to recall that Colin Wilson, in The Outsider, held up The Hunger Artist as a parable of spiritual hunger; the hunger artist, before dying, confesses that he simply never found the food he craved.
My, that’s a powerful drawing. Reminds me a bit of Kathe Kollwitz.