Archives containing the RDF files for *all* our books can be downloaded at https://www.gutenberg.org/wiki/Gutenberg:Feeds#The_Complete_Project_Gutenberg_Catalog Project Gutenberg 2008-06-14 Public domain in the USA. 477 Kafka, Franz 1883 1924 Kafka, F. (Franz) In der Strafkolonie Reading ease score: 77.4 (7th grade). Fairly easy to read. Produced by Jana Srna and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net "In der Strafkolonie" by Franz Kafka is a short story written in the early 20th century, during the 1910s. The narrative is set in a colonial penal environment and explores themes of justice, punishment, and the machinery of authority. It presents a peculiar execution device that embodies the dark, absurdist elements typical of Kafka's writing. The story unfolds through the perspective of an unnamed traveler who witnesses a gruesome execution in a remote penal colony. An officer describes the intricate operation of a machine designed to inscribe the sentence of a condemned man directly onto his skin. The condemned soldier lies helpless as the officer passionately explains the machine's workings, while the traveler grapples with his horror and moral revulsion. Despite the officer's fervor for the machine and its method of execution aligned with the old commandant's vision, the traveler finds himself increasingly disturbed by the inhumanity of the process. Ultimately, the story culminates in a tragic inversion of roles when the officer opts to take the place of the condemned, symbolizing the inevitable decline of the old authoritarian order in the face of moral and ethical scrutiny. (This is an automatically generated summary.) de Short stories Torture -- Fiction PT Text DE Prosa Browsing: Literature Browsing: Fiction 97527 2024-10-11T07:09:22.773400 2023-09-11T10:02:15.089367 text/html text/html 98406 2021-01-03T17:49:16 text/html; charset=iso-8859-1 40069 2021-01-03T17:49:16 text/html; charset=iso-8859-1 application/zip 105253 2024-10-11T07:09:26.911369 application/epub+zip 104252 2024-10-11T07:09:24.474368 application/epub+zip 99774 2024-10-11T07:09:23.369376 application/epub+zip 209262 2024-10-11T07:09:28.736377 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 199218 2024-10-11T07:09:26.275386 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 173728 2022-09-12T06:11:30.307959 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 87900 2024-10-11T07:09:22.460386 text/plain; charset=us-ascii 87835 2021-01-03T17:49:16 text/plain; charset=utf-8 33436 2021-01-03T17:49:16 text/plain; charset=utf-8 application/zip 86785 2021-01-03T17:49:16 text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 33262 2021-01-03T17:49:16 text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 application/zip 21310 2024-10-11T07:09:28.862351 application/rdf+xml 13482 2024-10-11T07:09:23.905389 image/jpeg 3735 2024-10-11T07:09:23.636374 image/jpeg 102749 2024-10-11T07:09:22.786398 application/octet-stream application/zip de.wikipedia en.wikipedia