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In the Penal Colony by Franz Kafka

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Author Biography

Name: Franz Kafka
Birth Date: 1883
Death Date: 1924
Gender: Male
Occupations: novelist, short-story writer

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Biography of Franz Kafka
19616 words, approx. 65.4 pages
Franz Kafka is one of the founders of modern literature. His claim to greatness includes his service in completely collapsing the aesthetic distance that had traditionally separated the writer from the reader. In what is probably his most famous work of...
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Biography of Franz Kafka
17936 words, approx. 59.8 pages
Franz Kafka is one of the founders of modern literature. His claim to greatness includes his service in completely collapsing the aesthetic distance that had traditionally separated the writer from the reader. In what is probably his most famous work of...
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Biography of Franz Kafka
5563 words, approx. 18.5 pages
One of the most influential writers of the twentieth century, Franz Kafka penned novels and short stories that portray the bewildered alienation of modern society. His characters frequently find themselves in threatening situations for which there is no...
 


Encyclopedia and Summary Information
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In the Penal Colony Information
917 words, approx. 3 pages
"In the Penal Colony" (German: "In der Strafkolonie") is a short story in German by Franz Kafka. It is set in an unnamed penal colony. Some commentators have suggested Octave Mirbeau's The Torture Garden as an influence. As in some of Kafka's other...


News and Journals
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Journal of Australian Studies
In The Penal Colony.
03/01/2000: 8,702 words, approx. 29 pages
What are the periodicities of remembrance shared with others? Writing in the final volume of Les Lieux de memoire Pierre Nora identifies two primary forms of commemorative time: that of the centenary, 'voluntary, deliberate, impossible either to avoid or to manage', and that of...
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Variety
IN THE PENAL COLONY.(Review) (theater review)
06/25/2001: 726 words, approx. 2 pages
IN THE PENAL COLONY (CLASSIC STAGE CO.; 175 SEATS; $45 TOP) NEW YORK A Classic Stage Co. presentation of a music-theater work in one act with music by Philip Glass, libretto by Rudolph Wurlitzer. Directed by JoAnne Akalaitis. Conductor-music director, Alan Johnson. Set,...


Criticism and Essays
Literary Criticism
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Critical Essay by Kurt J. Fickert
3,453 words, approx. 12 pages
In the following essay, Fickert investigates the dramatic epiphany that occurs in “In the Penal Colony” and compares it to other works by Kafka.


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