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In recent decades, interest in hunger artists has waned considerably.

Someone must have slandered Josef K., because without him having done anything wrong, he was arrested one morning. "Like a dog! " he said, it was as if shame should outlive him. When Gregor Samsa awoke one morning from troubled dreams, he found himself transformed into a monstrous vermin in his bed. And it was like a confirmation of their new dreams and good intentions when, at the end of their journey, their daughter was the first to rise and stretch her young body. "It's a strange contraption," said the officer to the explorer, surveying the familiar apparatus with a look of admiration.