The Judgement and in the Penal Colony

The Judgement and in the Penal Colony
Title The Judgement and in the Penal Colony PDF eBook
Author Franz Kafka
Publisher Penguin Group USA
Pages 55
Release 1996-03
Genre Fiction
ISBN 9780146001789

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In the Penal Colony

In the Penal Colony
Title In the Penal Colony PDF eBook
Author Franz Kafka
Publisher Sheba Blake Publishing
Pages 37
Release 2017-04-19
Genre Fiction
ISBN 3961893489

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In the Penal Colony is a short story by Franz Kafka written in German in October 1914, revised in November 1918, and first published in October 1919. 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 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. The story focuses on the Explorer, who is encountering the brutal machine for the first time. Everything about the machine and its purpose is told to him by the Officer. The Soldier and the Condemned (who is unaware that he has been sentenced to die) placidly watch from nearby. The Officer tells of the religious epiphany the executed experience in their last six hours in the machine. Eventually, it becomes clear that the use of the machine and its associated process of justice – the accused is always instantly found guilty, and the law he has broken is inscribed on his body as he slowly dies over a period of 12 hours – has fallen out of favor with the current Commandant. The Officer is nostalgic regarding the torture machine and the values that were initially associated with it. As the last proponent of the machine, he strongly believes in its form of justice and the infallibility of the previous Commandant, who designed and built the device. In fact, the Officer carries its blueprints with him and is the only person who can properly decipher them; no one else is allowed to handle these documents.

Franz Kafka

Franz Kafka
Title Franz Kafka PDF eBook
Author Stanley Corngold
Publisher Cornell University Press
Pages 358
Release 2018-03-15
Genre Literary Criticism
ISBN 1501722824

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In Stanley Corngold’s view, the themes and strategies of Kafka’s fiction are generated by a tension between his concern for writing and his growing sense of its arbitrary character. Analyzing Kafka’s work in light of "the necessity of form," which is also a merely formal necessity, Corngold uncovers the fundamental paradox of Kafka’s art and life. The first section of the book shows how Kafka’s rhetoric may be understood as the daring project of a man compelled to live his life as literature. In the central part of the book, Corngold reflects on the place of Kafka within the modern tradition, discussing such influential precursors of Cervantes, Flaubert, and Nietzsche, whose works display a comparable narrative disruption. Kafka’s distinctive narrative strategies, Corngold points out, demand interpretation at the same time they resist it. Critics of Kafka, he says, must be aware that their approaches are guided by the principles that Kafka’s fiction identifies, dramatizes, and rejects.

The Metamorphosis, in the Penal Colony and Other Stori

The Metamorphosis, in the Penal Colony and Other Stori
Title The Metamorphosis, in the Penal Colony and Other Stori PDF eBook
Author Franz Kafka
Publisher Simon and Schuster
Pages 356
Release 2010-06-15
Genre Fiction
ISBN 1439144591

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Including his most widely recognized short works, as well as two new stories, this translation of Franz Kafka’s writings illuminate one of the century’s most controversial writers. Translated by PEN translation award-winner Joachim Neugroschel, The Metamorphosis, In the Penal Colony, and Other Stories has garnered critical acclaim and is widely recognized as the preeminent English-language anthology of Kafka's stories. Neugroschel’s translation of Kafka's work has made this controversial and monumental writing accessible to a whole new generation. This classic collection of forty-one great short works—including such timeless pieces of modern fiction as "The Judgment" and "The Stoker"—now includes two new stories, "First Sorrow" and "The Hunger Artist."

The Metamorphosis + In the Penal Colony (2 contemporary translations by Ian Johnston)

The Metamorphosis + In the Penal Colony (2 contemporary translations by Ian Johnston)
Title The Metamorphosis + In the Penal Colony (2 contemporary translations by Ian Johnston) PDF eBook
Author Franz Kafka
Publisher e-artnow
Pages 157
Release 2013-11-10
Genre Fiction
ISBN 8026803833

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This carefully crafted ebook: "The Metamorphosis + In the Penal Colony (2 contemporary translations by Ian Johnston)" contains 2 books in one volume and is formatted for your eReader with a functional and detailed table of contents. The Metamorphosis is a novella by Franz Kafka, first published in 1915. It has been cited as one of the seminal works of fiction of the 20th century and is studied in colleges and universities across the Western world. The story begins with a traveling salesman, Gregor Samsa, waking to find himself transformed (metamorphosed) into a large, monstrous insect-like creature. The cause of Samsa's transformation is never revealed, and Kafka never did give an explanation. The rest of Kafka's novella deals with Gregor's attempts to adjust to his new condition as he deals with being burdensome to his parents and sister, who are repulsed by the horrible, verminous creature Gregor has become. "In the Penal Colony" is a short story by Franz Kafka written in German in October 1914, and first published in October 1919. 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.

The Metamorphosis and Other Stories

The Metamorphosis and Other Stories
Title The Metamorphosis and Other Stories PDF eBook
Author Franz Kafka
Publisher Oxford University Press, USA
Pages 195
Release 2009-07-09
Genre Biography & Autobiography
ISBN 0199238553

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For the 125th anniversary of Kafka's birth comes an astonishing new translation of his best-known stories, in a spectacular graphic package.

Metamorphosis and The Trial (Collins Classics)

Metamorphosis and The Trial (Collins Classics)
Title Metamorphosis and The Trial (Collins Classics) PDF eBook
Author Franz Kafka
Publisher HarperCollins UK
Pages 303
Release 2015-05-10
Genre Fiction
ISBN 0008110573

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