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Franz Kafka In the Penal Colony / In der Strafkolonie

Bilingual Edition: English - German / Zweisprachige Ausgabe: Englisch - Deutsch

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This edition contains the English translation and the original text in German. "In the Penal Colony" ("In der Strafkolonie") (also translated as "In the Penal Settlement") is a short story by Franz Kafka written in German in October 1914, revised in November 1918, and first published in October 1919. 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 on his skin before letting him die, all in the course of twelve hours. As the plot unfolds, the reader learns more and more about the machine, including its origin and original justification. "In der Strafkolonie" ist eine Erzählung von Franz Kafka, die im Oktober 1914 entstand und 1919 veröffentlicht wurde. Einem Forschungsreisenden wird das Rechtssystem einer Strafkolonie vorgeführt. Es besteht darin, dass jeder Angeklagte unabhängig von seiner Schuld oder Unschuld von einem Apparat in minutiösem Ablauf stundenlang gefoltert und dann getötet wird. Den Apparat beschreibt Kafka als überdimensionalen Parlographen in der Funktionsweise eines Phonographen mit vibrierender Metallplatte und Nadel. Dieser Apparat ist der Hauptgegenstand der Erzählung, er repräsentiert die "Einheit von Schrift und Tod, von Ekstase und Thanatos". [more]

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Ivar Jorgensen The Penal Cluster

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var Jørgensen (31 May 1877 – 24 February 1956) was a Norwegian civil servant and politician for the [more]

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Ivar Jorgensen The Penal Cluster

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This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with almost no restrictions whatsoever. You [more]

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James H. McClintock Mormon Settlement in Arizona

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James Henry McClintock (1844-1914) was an American teacher, journalist, volunteer cavalry officer in Roosevelt's Rough Riders, civil servant, [more]

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James H. McClintock Mormon Settlement in Arizona

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James Henry McClintock (1844-1914) was an American teacher, journalist, volunteer cavalry officer in Roosevelt's Rough Riders, civil servant, [more]

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Shyla Mozden The Dying Settlement

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John L. Cotter, J. Paul Hudson New Discoveries At Jamestown Site Of The First Successful English Settlement In America

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John Lambert Cotter (6 December 1911 – 5 February 1999) was an archaeologist known for his work at Jamestown, Virginia. Cotter also developed a reputation as an authority on Paleoindians, based largely on his work at the Blackwater Draw site in the 1930s, where the first stratigraphical separation of Clovis and Folsom artifacts was reported. Cotter's career spanned more than sixty years and included archaeological work with the Works Progress Administration in the Kentucky river bottoms, numerous posts with the National Park Service, and contributions to the development of historical archaeology in the United States. [more]

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Herbert Feis The Settlement of Wage Disputes

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Herbert Feis was an American non-fiction writer and an Economic Advisor for International Affairs to the U.S. Department of State in the Hoover and Roosevelt administrations. Wikipedia Born: June 7, 1893, New York City, New York, United States Died: March 2, 1972, Winter Park, Florida, United States Education: Harvard University (1921) Books: From trust to terror, Churchill, Roosevelt, Stalin, more Awards: Pulitzer Prize for History, Guggenheim Fellowship for Social Sciences, US & Canada [more]

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Samuel Butler A First Year in Canterbury Settlement

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Samuel Butler (4 December 1835 – 18 June 1902) was an iconoclastic Victorian-era English author who published a [more]

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George Bryce The Romantic Settlement Of Lord Selkirk's Colonists

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The present work tells the romantic story of the Settlement of Lord Selkirk's Colonists in Manitoba, and is appropriate and timely in view of the Centennial celebration of this event which will be held in Winnipeg in 1912. The author was the first, in his earlier books, to take a stand for justice to be done to Lord Selkirk as a Colonizer, and he has had the pleasure of seeing the current of all reliable history turned in Lord Selkirk's favor. [more]

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