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.
Szállítás:
Azonnal
Elérhető nálunk:
.ePub formátumban
Eredeti ár:
3 761 ,-
Adatok
Raktári kód:
184679
ISBN:
9789635227921
EAN:
9789635227921
Gyártó kód:
14825
Megjelenés:
2015.
Oldalszám:
23
Nyelv:
angol
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. As the plot unfolds, the reader learns more and more about the machine, including its origin, and original justification.
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