In the Penal Colony - Brossura

Kafka, Franz

Brossura

ISBN 10: 1979853940 ISBN 13: 9781979853941

Casa editrice: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, 2017

Riassunto

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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L'autore:

Franz Kafka was one of the major German-language fiction writers of the 20th century. A middle-class Jew based in Prague, his unique body of writing — many incomplete and most published posthumously — has become amongst the most influential in Western literature.

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• Editore: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
• Data di pubblicazione: 2017
• ISBN 10: 1979853940
• ISBN 13: 9781979853941
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 56
• Redattore: Editors JV