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Kafka's classic story. It 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... read more

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Original Language: German
Publisher: Kurt Wolff Verlag
Country: Germany
Publication Date: 1919
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