Title: In The Penal Colony
Product review: Kafka's dark sense of reality shines through in this piece in his in The GReat Short Works of Franz Kafka. As he often does, Kafka uses his alter reality as a metaphor for our reality. In The Penal Colony is a peice about a machine that punishes criminals by slowly enraving a script into the criminals body spelling out their crime and eventually killing them. He details the workings of the machine; from it's bed of cotton and bitting felt, to it's harrow, where the sharp needles lie in wait. Holding true to his metaphorical style, the machine represents a broader machine in our reality; the justice system. He subtley equates the the workings of the machine with the processes and workings of our own systems, obviously denouncing their mechanical ways. This is a great peice to introduce Kafka and his styles and should lead you to pick up others of his works.
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