Penal Colony - Couverture souple

Kafka, Franz

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0805204180 ISBN 13 : 9780805204186

Editeur : Schocken Books, 1974

Synopsis

Book by Franz Kafka

A propos du livre

Biographie de l'auteur :

Franz Kafka was one of the major German-language fiction writers of the 20th century. A middle-class Jew based in Prague, his unique body of writing — many incomplete and most published posthumously — has become amongst the most influential in Western literature. Kafka's works – including the stories Das Urteil (1913, "The Judgement"), In der Strafkolonie (1920, "In the Penal Colony"); the novella Die Verwandlung ("The Metamorphosis"); and unfinished novels Der Prozess ("The Trial") and Das Schloß ("The Castle") – have come to embody the blend of absurd, surreal and mundane which gave rise to the adjective "kafkaesque".

Présentation de l'éditeur :

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.

À propos de cette édition

• Éditeur: Schocken Books
• Date d'édition: 1974
• ISBN 10: 0805204180
• ISBN 13: 9780805204186
• Reliure: Broché