In der Strafkolonie by Franz Kafka
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"In der Strafkolonie" by Franz Kafka is a story written in October 1914 and published in 1919. A traveling researcher visits a remote penal colony where he witnesses an elaborate execution machine designed by the former commandant. The apparatus tortures condemned prisoners for hours by inscribing their violated commandment into their flesh. As the officer demonstrates this brutal justice system, he seeks the researcher's support to preserve it against growing opposition. The
demonstration takes an unexpected turn that leads to the researcher's hasty departure from the island. (This is an automatically generated summary.)
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About this eBook
| Author | Kafka, Franz, 1883-1924 |
|---|---|
| Title | In der Strafkolonie |
| Note | Wikipedia page about this book: de.wikipedia.org/wiki/In_der_Strafkolonie |
| Note | Wikipedia page about this book: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/In_the_Penal_Colony |
| Credits |
Produced by Jana Srna and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at www.pgdp.net |
| Reading Level | Reading ease score: 77.4 (7th grade). Fairly easy to read. |
| Language | German |
| LoC Class | PT: Language and Literatures: Germanic, Scandinavian, and Icelandic literatures |
| Subject | Short stories |
| Subject | Torture -- Fiction |
| Category | Text |
| eBook-No. | 25791 |
| ISBN (HTML) | 979-8-238-25791-4 |
| Release Date | Jun 14, 2008 |
| Last Update | Jan 3, 2021 |
| Copyright | Public domain in the USA. |
| Downloads | 1931 downloads in the last 30 days. |
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