In der Strafkolonie

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Kafka, Franz. "In der Strafkolonie" ("In the Penal Colony"). 1919. Frequently coll. and rpt. including The Penal Colony: Stories & Short Pieces . . . . Willa Muir and Edwin Muir, trans. New York: Schocken, 1961.

Realistically narrated horror story, featuring a machine very memorably imposing the mechanical upon the human.