In recent decades, interest in hunger artists has declined significantly.
Someone must have slandered Josef K., for without having done anything wrong, he was arrested one morning. "Like a dog!" he said, as if the shame would outlive him. When Gregor Samsa awoke one morning from restless dreams, he found himself transformed in his bed into a monstrous vermin. And it seemed to them like a confirmation of their new dreams and good intentions when, at the end of their journey, the daughter was the first to get up and stretch her young body. "It's a peculiar device," said the officer to the explorer, looking at the device, which was well known to him, with a certain admiring gaze.