In the Penal Colony: Large Print
Author : Franz Kafka
Publisher : Independently Published
Release Date : 2019-03-29
ISBN 10 : 1091826048
Pages : 28 pages
Rating : 4.0/5 (826 users)
Download In the Penal Colony: Large Print PDF Full or another Format written by Franz Kafka and published by Independently Published. This book was released on 2019-03-29 with total page 28 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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. As the plot unfolds, the reader learns more and more about the machine, including its origin, and original justification.