Cultural Depictions
The "starving artist" is a typical figure of Romanticism in the late 18th and early 19th centuries, and is seen in many paintings and works of literature. Henri Murger wrote about four starving artists in Scènes de la Vie de Bohème, the basis for the operas La bohème by Puccini and Leoncavallo. Knut Hamsun's novel Hunger depicts a period of a starving artist's life. Franz Kafka wrote a short story called "A Hunger Artist" in 1924 about a man who is world-famous for his public performances of fasting.
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