num_pages: 312
description: In this astonishingly acrobatic work, Paul Auster traces the compulsion to make literature--or art--through essays on Franz Kafka, Samuel Beckett, Paul Celan, Laura Riding, Knut Hamsun, John Ashbury, and other seminal figures of our century.
language: English
title: The Art of Hunger: Essays, Prefaces, Interviews
titlecomplete: The Art of Hunger: Essays, Prefaces, Interviews
genres: Reference, Criticism, Literary Criticism, Essays, Biography, Collections, Nonfiction, Memoir, Literature, 20th Century
ratings_count: 534
publisher: Sun & Moon Press