# Episode 320: Forgive Me (Kafka's "A Hunger Artist")

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Podcast: [Very Bad Wizards](https://stenobird.com/podcast/very-bad-wizards-200269)
Published: 2025-11-11T20:04:00+00:00
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Duration seconds: 5359

## Resource

David and Tamler return to one of their favorites, Frans Kafka, this time on his beautiful and distressing short story "The Hunger Artist," a story that brims with metaphorical possibilities but also implores us to accept it on its own mysterious terms. Plus gooning. The Goon Squad by Daniel Kolitz [harpers.org] "Gooning" definition [urbandictionary.com] A Hunger Artist [wikipedia.org] A Hunger Artist (full text) [kafka-online.info]

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