A visitor watches an officer demonstrate the machine that executes prisoners by slowly carving their sentence into their flesh.
Books that mention In the Penal Colony (4)
Kafka on the Shore by Haruki Murakami: “"'In the Penal Colony,'" Oshima says. "I love that story. Only Kafka could have written that."”
Babel Tower by A. S. Byatt: “'I read another story by Kafka, "The Penal Colony," in which there is a terrible instrument of torture...'”
How to Read and Why by Harold Bloom: “must have found in Pip (and other Dickens protagonists) another spur to his terrifying for mula for the tale "In the Penal Colony,"”
On Literature by Umberto Eco: “discussed regarding detail and suggestion in narrative technique”