A Hunger Artist Suffering Quotes Page 1
(Paragraph) We used Stanley Corngold's translation.
| Quote #1 […] pale in a black leotard, with strongly protruding ribs, even disdaining a chair, he sat on spread straw […] (1) |
This grotesque image of the artist's emaciated body should be appalling, but the crowd eats it up (pun intended). This may not be a strange as it sounds. Can you think of any gross spectacles that modern audiences can't get enough of (maybe something on reality TV…)?
| Quote #2 Nothing tormented the starvation artist more than such watchmen; they made him melancholy; they made his starving terribly difficult […] (2) |
The fact that the watchmen don't understand him causes the artist a lot of mental suffering. Why does the artist ache for them to believe him?
| Quote #3 […] he was so emaciated only from dissatisfaction with himself. (3) |
Surprise – it isn't the hunger that is making the artist so thin, but rather his inability to reach the heights of his art.
