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Theoretical reflections on F. Kafka’s short story A Hunger Artist. Comment to The art of fasting by M. Bertolini. In Bertolini’s essay The art of fasting: the last stories of Franz Kafka. With an appendix on Balzac, the author analyses widely from a sociological and literary perspective the theme of hunger through an examination of the short story A Hunger Artist by Franz Kafka. Here the intention is to offer a further interpretation of the short story which, in reference to Freudian metapsychology, will highlight the importance of the self-preservation drives and their interaction with sexual drives in the drive development of the subject. In particular these theoretical reflections will seek to develop further on the theme of the eroticization of hunger.