![]() ![]() Especially since his stories are often as amusing as they are perplexing and horrific. ![]() It might also be fascinating to look at Max Brod’s superb biography of his talented, troubled friend, not to mention discussing the way his ideas have shaped posterity and asking what we actually mean by Kafkaesque. My suggestion is that we start with the Penguin Classics edition of Metamorphosis and Other Stories, which includes The Penal Colony, and take it from there. ![]() But personally, I love how every single moment is drawn out infinitely, how every action is cut down to minuscule proportions that reading it feels surreal. ![]() We could probably spend an entire month talking about The Penal Colony alone - but it would be a shame to stop there since this extraordinary writer provides us with so much to talk about. Its awfully clear that it might not appeal to everyone. But he certainly created something that few who have read it ever forget - and which has had a lasting influence on modern literature and philosophy, not to mention plenty of nightmares. It would be wrong to say that the world would never be the same again, because he didn’t publish the story until 1918 and it wasn’t translated for another 30 years. In two productive weeks, Franz Kafka wrote The Penal Colony. This book title, The Metamorphosis and Other Stories, ISBN: 9780486290300, by Franz Kafka, published by Dover Publications (April 12, 1996) is available in. One hundred years ago this month, a young lawyer from Prague sat down and carved his name into the soft quivering flesh of posterity. ![]()
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