| In the Penal Colony Contributor(s): Johnston, Ian (Translator), Hollybooks (Editor), Kafka, Franz (Author) |
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ISBN: 1533149399 ISBN-13: 9781533149398 Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform OUR PRICE: $6.41 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: May 2016 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Literary Collections | European - German |
| Physical Information: 0.07" H x 6" W x 9" (0.13 lbs) 32 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: The story is set in an unnamed penal colony. Internal clues and the setting on an island suggest Octave Mirbeau's The Torture Garden as an influence. As in some of Kafka's other writings, the narrator in this story seems detached from, or perhaps numbed by, events that one would normally expect to be registered with horror. In the Penal Colony describes the last use of an elaborate torture and execution device that carves the sentence of the condemned prisoner on his skin in a script before letting him die, all in the course of twelve hours. |