"Hunger"and"fasting"are important themes and common images in Franz Kafka's liter-ary creation."Hunger"is first of all a physical feeling,but also related to the corresponding external conditions of life.At the same time,"fasting"is an active behavior,often carrying a strong spiritual will.These feelings and intentions are expressed in the autobiographical literary language by the au-thor,especially in his early works Das Urteil and Die Verwandlung and in his later works Ein Hun-gerkünstler and Forschungeneines Hundes.Hunger,as his strong personal experience and self-disciplined way of life,is interactively constructed with his self-consciousness of breaking through the external or-der and his artistic ideal of solitude and seeking truth.Kafka's writings on hunger and fasting suggest an intimate spiritual connection between him and Nietzsche,both of whom have chosen to write in a way that is physically and mentally interactive in the service of the quest for truth.
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