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A Hunger Artist is a posthumous collection of Franz Kafka's short stories, featuring the title story "A Hunger Artist," which follows a man who fasts for public entertainment until such acts fall out of fashion; "First Sorrow," about a trapeze artist's existential doubts; "A Little Woman," concerning a young woman's unexplained anxiety directed at the narrator; and "Josephine the Singer, or the Mouse Folk," narrated by a mouse who critiques the fame of a singing mouse named Josephine. This book contains themes of existential despair, starvation, and death.