The Hunger Artists: Starving, Writing & Imprisonment

by Maud Ellmann

Shipped from UK, please allow 10 to 21 business days for arrival. Moderate edgewear and creasing on the soft cover.There is a stamp mark in black ink on the base of the page block and a torn patch on the back cover where a self adhesive label has been partially removed.Contents clean and unmarked.

Genres: Nonfiction

136 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1993

Reviews

[Ellie · Rating 5 out of 5]

I’m bitter I can’t write or think as well

[Athira Mohan · Rating 4 out of 5]

For anyone looking for a short read on the politics of self starvation- the gendered aspect of it, as well as how it functions as a protest.

[Iris · Rating 5 out of 5]

a near perfect book, just a total joy to read

[Joonas Uusitalo · Rating 4 out of 5]

An interesting description of what hunger symbolizes both in art and in real life.

[zar]

For it is only in the world of words that food can function as a metaphor for sex at all, or sex as a metaphor for food. Yet the fact that language issues from the same orifice in which nutrition is imbibed means that words and food are locked in an eternal rivalry. "The mouth speaks with its tongue and tastes flavors," wrote Saint Catherine, who gave up food in order to incorporate the word of God. Since language must compete with food to gain the sole possession of the mouth, we must either speak and go hungry, or shut up and eat.

[Taycia Pérez · Rating 3 out of 5]

I definitely didn't read enough to give a good enough review but I would probably never try to read it again.

[Maggie · Rating 4 out of 5]

Really quite excellent. Read for an essay I’m writing on Clarissa.

[l · Rating 3 out of 5]

I wish psychoanalytical theory would just disappear from the face of the planet, tbh. Still, I liked this book. It gives me a framework from which to further investigate disembodiment, discarnation etc.