In the Penal Colony (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781533149398)

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.

Author: Ian Johnston, Franz Kafka
ISBN-10: 1533149399
ISBN-13: 9781533149398
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Language: English
Published: 05/08/2016
Pages: 32
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.13lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.07d