Kafka’s ‘The Hunger Artist’ and Shalamov’s ‘The Artist of the Spade’: The Discourse of Lent

Citation:

Kafka’s ‘The Hunger Artist’ and Shalamov’s ‘The Artist of the Spade’: The Discourse of Lent.” In Cold Fusion: Aspects of the German Cultural Presence in Russia, 277-91. Ed. Gennady Barabtarlo. New York: Berghahn Books, 2000.

Abstract:

Revised and reprinted, along with the translation (by N. Strazhas) of Shalamov's "The Artist of the Spade" in Towards the Ethics of Form in Fiction. Columbus: Ohio State University Press, 2010, pp. 179-190 and 191-201.

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