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In The Penal Colony

Author : Franz Kafka
Publisher : Memorable Classics Books
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 31 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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Download or read book In The Penal Colony written by Franz Kafka and published by Memorable Classics Books. This book was released on 2023-08-31 with total page 31 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In The Penal Colony by Franz Kafka ("In der Strafkolonie") (also translated as "In the Penal Settlement") is a short story by Franz Kafka written in German in October 1914, revised in November 1918, and first published in October 1919. 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. Internal clues and the setting on an island suggest Octave Mirbeau's The Torture Garden as an influence. Synopsis: The story focuses on the Traveler, who has just arrived in an island penal colony and is encountering its brutal execution machine for the first time. Everything about the functioning of the intricate machine and its purpose and history is told to him by the Officer. The Soldier and the Condemned, who is unaware that he has been sentenced to die for failing to get up and salute his superior's door each hour during his night watch, placidly watch from nearby. Under the judicial process associated with the machine, the accused is always assumed to be guilty and is not given a chance to defend himself. As punishment, the law the man has broken is inscribed progressively deeper on his body over a period of 12 hours as he slowly dies from his wounds. During their final six hours in the machine, the accused become still and appear to experience a religious epiphany. The machine was designed by the colony's previous Commandant, of whom the Officer is a devoted supporter. He carries its blueprints with him and is the only person who can decipher them, not allowing anyone else to handle them. Eventually, it becomes clear that the machine has fallen out of favor since the death of the previous Commandant and the appointment of a successor. The Officer is nostalgic regarding the torture device and the values that were initially associated with it, recalling the crowds that used to attend each execution. Now, he is the last outspoken proponent of the machine, but he strongly believes in its form of justice and the infallibility of the previous Commandant.

In the Penal Colony

Author : Franz Kafka
Publisher : Sheba Blake Publishing
ISBN 13 : 3961893489
Total Pages : 43 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (618 download)

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Download or read book In the Penal Colony written by Franz Kafka and published by Sheba Blake Publishing. This book was released on 2017-04-19 with total page 43 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

The Penal Colony

Author : Franz Kafka
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (321 download)

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Download or read book The Penal Colony written by Franz Kafka and published by . This book was released on 1966 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Judgement and in the Penal Colony

Author : Franz Kafka
Publisher : Penguin Group USA
ISBN 13 : 9780146001789
Total Pages : 55 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (17 download)

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Download or read book The Judgement and in the Penal Colony written by Franz Kafka and published by Penguin Group USA. This book was released on 1996-03 with total page 55 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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

Author : Franz Kafka
Publisher : e-artnow
ISBN 13 : 8074849651
Total Pages : 107 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (748 download)

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Download or read book The Metamorphosis + In the Penal Colony (2 contemporary translations by Ian Johnston) written by Franz Kafka and published by e-artnow. This book was released on 2013-11-10 with total page 107 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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. 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. Franz Kafka (1883 – 1924) was a German-language writer of novels and short stories, regarded by critics as one of the most influential authors of the 20th century. Kafka strongly influenced genres such as existentialism. Most of his works, such as The Metamorphosis, The Trial, and The Castle, are filled with the themes and archetypes of alienation, physical and psychological brutality, parent–child conflict, characters on a terrifying quest, labyrinths of bureaucracy, and mystical transformations.

The Metamorphosis

Author : Franz Kafka
Publisher : Random House Digital, Inc.
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 332 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book The Metamorphosis written by Franz Kafka and published by Random House Digital, Inc.. This book was released on 1995-11-14 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Collection of the best know novellas and stories of one of the seminal writers of the twentieth century.

In the Camps

Author : Darren Byler
Publisher : Atlantic Books
ISBN 13 : 1838955933
Total Pages : 127 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (389 download)

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Download or read book In the Camps written by Darren Byler and published by Atlantic Books. This book was released on 2022-02-03 with total page 127 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A revelatory account of what is really happening to China's Uyghurs 'Intimate, sombre, and damning... compelling.' Financial Times 'Chilling... Horrifying.' Spectator 'Invaluable.' Telegraph In China's vast northwestern region, more than a million and a half Muslims have vanished into internment camps and associated factories. Based on hours of interviews with camp survivors and workers, thousands of government documents, and over a decade of research, Darren Byler, one of the leading experts on Uyghur society uncovers their plight. Revealing a sprawling network of surveillance technology supplied by firms in both China and the West, Byler shows how the country has created an unprecedented system of Orwellian control. A definitive account of one of the world's gravest human rights violations, In the Camps is also a potent warning against the misuse of technology and big data.

The Metamorphosis, in the Penal Colony and Other Stori

Author : Franz Kafka
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1439144591
Total Pages : 356 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (391 download)

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Download or read book The Metamorphosis, in the Penal Colony and Other Stori written by Franz Kafka and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2010-06-15 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 Penal Colony

Author : Richard Herley
Publisher : William Morrow & Company
ISBN 13 : 9780688066222
Total Pages : 311 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (662 download)

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Download or read book The Penal Colony written by Richard Herley and published by William Morrow & Company. This book was released on 1988 with total page 311 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sentenced for a murder he did not commit, Anthony John Routledge is sent to Sert, a penal island off the Cornish coast, where he must forget the rules of civilized life in order to survive

In the Penal Colony

Author : Franz Kafka
Publisher : Phoemixx Classics Ebooks
ISBN 13 : 3986473653
Total Pages : 34 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (864 download)

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Download or read book In the Penal Colony written by Franz Kafka and published by Phoemixx Classics Ebooks. This book was released on 2021-09-26 with total page 34 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the Penal Colony Franz Kafka - "In the Penal Colony" ("In der Strafkolonie") (also translated as "In the Penal Settlement") 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.

Inside Rikers

Author : Jennifer Wynn
Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 9780312291587
Total Pages : 244 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (915 download)

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Download or read book Inside Rikers written by Jennifer Wynn and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2002-07-24 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Describes the world's largest and most expensive correctional facility, offers an incisive portrait of its more than eighteen thousand inmates and the individuals who work there, and discusses the changes that have transformed the jail.

Torture Garden

Author : Octave Mirbeau
Publisher : DigiCat
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 162 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (596 download)

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Download or read book Torture Garden written by Octave Mirbeau and published by DigiCat. This book was released on 2022-05-29 with total page 162 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Torture Garden is a novel written by the French journalist, novelist, and playwright Octave Mirbeau. It was first published in 1899 during the Dreyfus affair. This book is an allegory on the hypocrisy of European civilization. It presents strong criticism of bloody French and British colonialism and a ferocious attack on what Mirbeau saw as the corrupt morality of bourgeois capitalist society and the state, which he believed were based on murder.

Russia's Penal Colony in the Far East

Author : Vlas Doroshevich
Publisher : Anthem Press
ISBN 13 : 085728391X
Total Pages : 515 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (572 download)

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Download or read book Russia's Penal Colony in the Far East written by Vlas Doroshevich and published by Anthem Press. This book was released on 2011 with total page 515 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'Russia's Penal Colony in the Far East: A Translation of Vlas Doroshevich's "Sakhalin"' is the first English language translation of the Russian journalist Vlas Doroshevich's 1903 account of his visit to tsarist Russia's largest penal colony, Sakhalin, in the north Pacific. Despite the publication of Anton Chekhov's account of his visit to Sakhalin in 1890, many Russians remained unaware of the brutality and savagery of the 'devil island'. In 1897 Doroshevich, Russia's most popular journalist, travelled to Sakhalin and spent three months touring the island, interviewing numerous prisoners and officials, and recording his impressions. The feuilletons he wired back to his publishers were eventually collected and published in book form in 1903, under the title 'Sakhalin' (Katorga). Doroshevich's book was enormously popular when it first appeared, and it continues to be published in Russia, as a historical record of the striking barbarity of late nineteenth century penal practices. Despite this popularity, it has never before been translated into English, and Doroshevich remains largely unknown outside Russia. This translation introduces English-language readers to an important writer and original stylist who defined journalistic practice during the years leading up to the 1917 Revolution, by way of a book which helps explain the causes for that revolution.

Punishment in Paradise

Author : Peter M. Beattie
Publisher : Duke University Press
ISBN 13 : 0822375893
Total Pages : 352 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (223 download)

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Download or read book Punishment in Paradise written by Peter M. Beattie and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 2015-02-23 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Throughout the nineteenth century the idyllic island of Fernando de Noronha, which lies two hundred miles off Brazil's northeastern coast, was home to Brazil's largest forced labor penal colony. In Punishment in Paradise Peter M. Beattie uses Noronha as a case study to understand nineteenth-century Brazil's varied social and cultural values, especially in relation to justice, class, color, civil condition, human rights and labor. As Brazil’s slave population declined after 1850, the use of colonial-era disciplinary practices at Noronha—such as flogging and forced labor—stoked anxieties about human rights and Brazil’s international image. Beattie contends that the treatment of slaves, convicts, and other social categories subject to coercive labor extraction were interconnected and that reforms that benefitted one of these categories made them harder to deny to others. In detailing Noronha's history and the end of slavery as part of an international expansion of human rights, Beattie places Brazil firmly in the purview of Atlantic history.

Beyond Papillon

Author : Stephen A. Toth
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
ISBN 13 : 0803244495
Total Pages : 238 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (32 download)

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Download or read book Beyond Papillon written by Stephen A. Toth and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 2006-01-01 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A multilayered social and cultural analysis that focuses upon the will of civil society and the will of those who actually lived and worked in the bagne, or penal colony.

The Metamorphosis, a Hunger Artist, in the Penal Colony, and Other Stories

Author : Franz Kafka
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781935238829
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (388 download)

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Download or read book The Metamorphosis, a Hunger Artist, in the Penal Colony, and Other Stories written by Franz Kafka and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This collection brings together some of Kafka's best known shorter fiction in a new translation by Ian Johnston."--WorldCat.

Legibility in the Age of Signs and Machines

Author :
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004376178
Total Pages : 296 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (43 download)

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Download or read book Legibility in the Age of Signs and Machines written by and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2018-11-01 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume reflects on what legibility entails in today’s machinic world. It asks what makes cultural expressions, from literary texts, films, artworks and museum exhibits to archives, laws and algorithms, il/legible to whom or what, and with what consequences.