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Input (English): Context: `` A Hunger Artist '' ( `` Ein Hungerkünstler '' ) is a short story by Franz Kafka first published in Die neue Rundschau in 1922 . The story was also included in the collection A Hunger Artist ( Ein Hungerkünstler ) , the last book Kafka prepared for publication , printed by Verlag Die Schmiede after Kafka 's death . The protagonist , a hunger artist who experiences the decline in appreciation of his craft , is an archetypical creation of Kafka : an individual marginalized and victimized by society at large . The title of the story has been translated also to `` A Fasting Artist '' and `` A Starvation Artist '' ., Franz Kafka (3 July 1883  3 June 1924) was a German-language writer of novels and short stories who is widely regarded as one of the major figures of 20th-century literature. His work, which fuses elements of realism and the fantastic, typically features isolated protagonists faced by bizarre or surrealistic predicaments and incomprehensible social-bureaucratic powers, and has been interpreted as exploring themes of alienation, existential anxiety, guilt, and absurdity. His best known works include "" ("The Metamorphosis"), ' ("The Trial"), and ' ("The Castle"). The term "Kafkaesque" has entered the English language to describe situations like those in his writing., The Trial (original German title: , later , and ) is a novel written by Franz Kafka from 1914 to 1915 and published in 1925. One of his best-known works, it tells the story of a man arrested and prosecuted by a remote, inaccessible authority, with the nature of his crime revealed neither to him nor to the reader. Heavily influenced by Dostoyevsky's "Crime and Punishment" and "The Brothers Karamazov", Kafka even went so far as to call Dostoyevsky a blood relative. Like Kafka's other novels, "The Trial" was never completed, although it does include a chapter which brings the story to an end., The Metamorphosis (also sometimes translated as The Transformation) is a novella by Franz Kafka, first published in 1915. It has been called one of the seminal works of fiction of the 20th century and is studied in colleges and universities across the Western world., Subject: a hunger artist, Relation: publication_date, Options: (A) 1914 (B) 1915 (C) 1924 (D) 3 (E) june 1924
Output (English): 1924