Book description
The condemned man looked so doggishly submissive, it really seemed as
if one might allow him to roam the slopes freely, and only needed to
whistle when it was time for the execution, and he would come. Kafka
transformed the possibilities of the short story, his unique imagination
giving his dark tales a sense of dream-like logic and unreality, in
which their horrors are humorous and unease pervades. In these two
stories, a traveller is shown the workings of an elaborate machine with
a bloody purpose, and a son awakens unimagined resentments in his
father. This book includes In the Penal Colony and The Judgement.
Franz Kafka (1883-1924) was born of Jewish parents in Prague. He was one
of the most influential fiction writers of the twentieth century, famous
for his socialist views and unique literary style. Several of his story
collections were published in his lifetime and his novels, The Trial,
The Castle, and Amerika, were published posthumously by his editor Max
Brod.
