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In the Penal Colony
Contributor(s): Editors, Jv (Editor), Kafka, Franz (Author)

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 ISBN: 1979853940     ISBN-13: 9781979853941
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
OUR PRICE: $9.73  

Binding Type: Paperback - See All Available Formats & Editions
Published: November 2017
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BISAC Categories:
- Fiction | Short Stories (single Author)
- Fiction | Horror - General
- Fiction | Thrillers - Psychological
Physical Information: 0.12" H x 6" W x 9" L (0.20 lbs) 58 pages
 
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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.
 
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