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In the Penal Colony

By Franz Kafka

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• Publisher : Sheba Blake Publishing
• Isbn : 3961893489
• Pages : 19
• Category : Fiction
• Reads : 331
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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.

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• Publisher : Wilfrid Laurier Univ. Press
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• File Pdf: the-metamorphosis-and-other-stories.pdf

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Excellent new English translations of title story (considered by many critics Kafka's most perfect work), plus "The Judgment," "In the Penal Colony," "A Country Doctor," and "A Report to an Academy." Note.

He: Shorter Writings of Franz Kafka

By Franz Kafka

• Format : Pdf, ePub, Mobi, Kindle
• Publisher : Picador
• Isbn : 0374722293
• Pages :
• Category : Fiction
• Reads : 893
• File Pdf: he.pdf

Book Summary:

A new selection of Franz Kafka's shorter fiction and nonfiction work, selected and with a preface by Book of Numbers author Joshua Cohen. "Being asked to write about Kafka is like being asked to describe the Great Wall of China by someone who's standing just next to it. The only honest thing to do is point." —Joshua Cohen, from his foreword to He: Shorter Writings of Franz Kafka This is a Kafka emergency kit, a congregation of the brief, the minor works that are actually major. Joshua Cohen has produced a frame that refuses distinctions between what is a story, a letter, a workplace memo, and a diary entry, also including popular favorites like The Bucket Rider, The Penal Colony, and The Burrow. Here we see Kafka's preoccupations in writing about animals, messiah variations, food, and exercise, each in his signature style. Cohen's selection emphasizes the stately structure of utterly coherent logic within an utterly incoherent and illogical world, showing how Kafka harnessed the humblest grammar to metamorphic power, until the predominant effect ceases to be the presence of an unreliable narrator but the absence of the universe's only reliable narrator—God.

The Country Doctor

By Franz Kafka

• Format : Pdf, ePub, Mobi, Kindle
• Publisher : Phoemixx Classics Ebooks
• Isbn : 398594184X
• Pages : 99
• Category : Nature
• Reads : 424
• File Pdf: the-country-doctor.pdf

Book Summary:

The Country Doctor Franz Kafka - The plot follows a country doctor's hapless struggle to attend a sick young boy on a cold winter's night. A series of surreal events occur in the process, including the appearance of a mysterious groom in a pig shed.

The Metamorphosis - Franz Kafka

By Franz Kafka

• Format : Pdf, ePub, Mobi, Kindle
• Publisher : Phoemixx Classics Ebooks
• Isbn : 3985947619
• Pages : 315
• Category : Juvenile Fiction
• Reads : 629
• File Pdf: the-metamorphosis-franz-kafka.pdf

Book Summary:

"As Gregor Samsa awoke one morning from uneasy dreams he found himself transformed in his bed into a gigantic insect. He was laying on his hard, as it were armor-plated, back and when he lifted his head a little he could see his domelike brown belly divided into stiff arched segments on top of which the bed quilt could hardly keep in position and was about to slide off completely. His numerous legs, which were pitifully thin compared to the rest of his bulk, waved helplessly before his eyes."With it's startling, bizarre, yet surprisingly funny first opening, Kafka begins his masterpiece, The Metamorphosis. It is the story of a young man who, transformed overnight into a giant beetle-like insect, becomes an object of disgrace to his family, an outsider in his own home, a quintessentially alienated man. A harrowingthough absurdly comicmeditation on human feelings of inadequacy, guilt, and isolation, The Metamorphosis has taken its place as one of the most widely read and influential works of twentieth-century fiction. As W.H. Auden wrote, "Kafka is important to us because his predicament is the predicament of modern man."

Amerika

By Franz Kafka

• Format : Pdf, ePub, Mobi, Kindle
• Publisher : Random House
• Isbn : 1473572037
• Pages : 256
• Category : Fiction
• Reads : 730
• File Pdf: amerika.pdf

Book Summary:

'No other voice has borne truer witness to the dark of our times' George Steiner After an embarrassing sexual misadventure with a servant girl, sixteen-year-old Karl Rossman is banished to America by his parents. Expected to redeem himself in the land of opportunity, Karl's youthful breeziness propels him into a series of bizarre escapades which threaten to ensnare him permanently. Though dredged with humour and optimism, Kafka's first novel bears his distinctive hallmarks, as young Karl becomes mired in an ever more unreal and oppressive system. THE CLASSIC TRANSLATION BY WILLA AND EDWIN MUIR

For the Term of His Natural Life

By Marcus Clarke

• Format : Pdf, ePub, Mobi, Kindle
• Publisher : Graphic Arts Books
• Isbn : 1513293923
• Pages : 484
• Category : Fiction
• Reads : 560
• File Pdf: for-the-term-of-his-natural-life.pdf

Book Summary:

For the Term of His Natural Life (1874) is a novel by Marcus Clarke. Inspired by a journey taken by the author to the penal colony of Port Arthur, Tasmania, the novel was originally serialized in The Australian Journal between 1870 and 1872. For its depictions of the brutality and inhumanity of Australia's penal colonies, the novel has been recognized as a powerful realist novel and one of the first works of Tasmanian Gothic literature. In the year 1827, a young British aristocrat is implicated in the murder and robbery of Lord Bellasis, his birth father. Sent to Van Diemen's Land, he changes his name to Rufus Dawes and steadies himself for life in some of the world's most notorious penal colonies. On board the Malabar, which is also transporting the new commander of the settlement at Macquarie Harbour, a group of mutineers hatches a plan to take control of the ship. Although Dawes warns the Captain, the conspirators place responsibility for the attempted mutiny on his innocent shoulders, and his sentence is extended for the rest of his life. At Macquarie Harbor and later Port Arthur, Dawes is brutalized, isolated, and tortured, leaving him no choice but to plan his unlikely escape. With a beautifully designed cover and professionally typeset manuscript, this edition of Marcus Clarke's For the Term of His Natural Life is a classic of Australian literature reimagined for modern readers.

London Labour and the London Poor

By Henry Mayhew

• Format : Pdf, ePub, Mobi, Kindle
• Publisher : Penguin UK
• Isbn : 0141907460
• Pages : 544
• Category : History
• Reads : 355
• File Pdf: london-labour-and-the-london-poor.pdf

Book Summary:

London Labour and the London Poor originated in a series of newspaper articles written by the great journalist Henry Mayhew between 1849 and 1850. A dozen years later, it had grown into the fullest picture we have of labouring people in the world's greatest city in the nineteenth century: a four volume account of the hopes, customs, grievances and habits of the working-classes that allows them to tell their own stories. Combining practicality with compassion, Mayhew worked unencumbered by political theory and strove solely to report on the lives of the London poor, their occupations and trades. This selection shows how well he succeeded. From costermongers to ex-convicts, from chimney-sweeps to vagrants, the underprivileged of London are uniquely brought to life - their plight expressed through a startling blend of first person accounts, Mayhew's perceptions, and sharp statistics.

The Inquisitor

By Robert Silverberg

• Format : Pdf, ePub, Mobi, Kindle
• Publisher : Wildside Press LLC
• Isbn : 1479459739
• Pages : 20
• Category : Fiction
• Reads : 176
• File Pdf: the-inquisitor.pdf

Book Summary:

"The Inquisitor," was written in May, 1956 for William Hamling's IMAGINATION magazine, as Robert Silverberg writes in his lengthly introduction, "a few weeks before my graduation from Columbia, and put my own byline on it, but when Hamling published it in the December, 1956 issue of IMAGINATION it was credited to Randall Garrett, and so it has remained in bibliographies to this day. It's my work, though: a compact synthesis, in 2500 words, of the themes of Arthur Koestler's Darkness at Noon and Franz Kafka's "In the Penal Colony," two classic works of fiction that would have been very much on my mind as I rounded out my days as a literature major at Columbia."

The Complete Stories

By Franz Kafka

• Format : Pdf, ePub, Mobi, Kindle
• Publisher : Schocken
• Isbn : 0307829456
• Pages : 512
• Category : Fiction
• Reads : 252
• File Pdf: the-complete-stories.pdf

Book Summary:

The Complete Stories brings together all of Kafka's stories, from the classic tales such as "The Metamorphosis," "In the Penal Colony," and "A Hunger Artist" to shorter pieces and fragments that Max Brod, Kafka's literary executor, released after Kafka's death. With the exception of his three novels, the whole of Kafka's narrative work is included in this volume.

Inside Rikers

By Jennifer Wynn

• Format : Pdf, ePub, Mobi, Kindle
• Publisher : St. Martin's Press
• Isbn : 1429937602
• Pages : 256
• Category : Social Science
• Reads : 127
• File Pdf: inside-rikers.pdf

Book Summary:

Rikers Island--just six miles from the Empire State Building--is one of the largest, most complex and most expensive penal institutions in the world, yet most New Yorkers couldn't find it on a map. Jennifer Wynn, the director of the Fresh Start program at Rikers, takes readers into the jails and then back out-to the communities where her students were born and raised. She chronicles their journeys as they struggle to "go straight" and find respect in a city that fears and rejects them. Part memoir, part social commentary, Inside Rikers details the author's experiences on Rikers. Wynn offers a compelling portrait of its 18,000 inmates and how Rikers was transformed from one of the most violent jails into one of the safest.

Kafka: A Guide for the Perplexed

By Clayton Koelb

• Format : Pdf, ePub, Mobi, Kindle
• Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
• Isbn : 1441155767
• Pages : 192
• Category : Literary Criticism
• Reads : 129
• File Pdf: kafka.pdf

Book Summary:

Franz Kafka is one of the most widely taught, and read, writers in world literature. Readers encountering texts like 'The Metamorphosis' and The Trial for the first time are frequently perplexed by his often intentionally weird writing. Some might say that Kafka's enduring achievement has been to make his readers love being perplexed. As much of Kafka's writing is designed to perplex the reader, this guide helps the reader understand why and how perplexity has been deliberately created by Kafka's text and to realize what the uses of such perplexity might be. The book guides readers through their first encounters with Kafka and introduces the problems involved in reading his texts, the nature of his texts from the key novels and novellas to letters and professional writings, his life as a writer and different approaches to reading Kafka.

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