Before going to the Leipzig Book Fair with my nine-year-old daughter, I read Kafka’s short story The Hunger Artist. It tells of an artist whose “art” consists of starving himself, while caged in public view. It is a strange story requiring a few readings. In the end, it is revealed that the hunger artist isn’t really a hunger artist, he just hasn’t found food that he really likes. At the antique section of the Book Fair, I got very excited when I spied a beautiful copy of The Hunger Artist and Other Short Stories from 1923, the last book published…

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