For 10 points, name this condition that titles a Knut Hamsun novel and a Franz Kafka story about an "Artist" who "couldn't find the food [he] liked."
To earn money, a character with this condition pawns his vest and writes a character sketch about Correggio. To appease a character with this condition, a supervisor notes, "we do admire it," but amends his statement to, "we don't admire it," before that character dies and is replaced by a (*) panther. The title character of that story spends forty-day periods embracing this condition, despite its waning popularity by circus-goers. For 10 points, name this condition that titles a Knut Hamsun novel and a Franz Kafka story about an "Artist" who "couldn't find the food [he] liked."
To earn money, a character with this condition pawns his vest and writes a character sketch about Correggio.
hunger [accept Hunger or "A Hunger Artist"; accept starving, fasting, or word forms thereof]