The Hunger Artist =/

The Hunger Artist was a okay story to read. I did not find it interesting. The story basically talks about a artist who believes that fasting is an art. I would think it is more of a religious thing, although in the story we are told that how at a point the artist was known but later is no longer popular. Therefore he works at a circus and he gets the point that no one has any interest in him any longer. I guess the story was written to share how a artist live can be.. It can change; be popular at a point and then everything falls down at some other