In the Penal Colony by Franz Kafka

In the Penal Colony

Franz Kafka with Ian Johnston (Translator)

32 pages first pub 1919 (editions)

fiction classics horror short stories dark reflective medium-paced
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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 ...

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