The Penal Colony

The Penal Colony (original title In der Strafkolonie) is a short story by Franz Kafka set in some unnamed penal colony.

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The story is about the last execution by an elaborate torture machine that slowly engraves moralizing slogans into the flesh of the condemned to educate him in his prolonged agony. The inventor is so dismayed about the lack of public recognition for this educational device that in the end he thrusts himself into the machine and is impaled on the engraving shaft.

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