@path_to_stoicism: Franz Kafka edited A Hunger Artist on his deathbed, tragically mirroring his own fate. Diagnosed with laryngeal tuberculosis, the disease made swallowing so agonizingly painful that he literally starved to death in June 1924, just before the collection containing his dark masterpiece about a fasting performer was published. . . . . . . . . . . . #kafka #change #philosophy #literature #SelfImprovement