23+ In The Penal Colony Kafka PNG. It appeared that the traveler had responded to the invitation of the commandant only out of politeness. It's a peculiar apparatus, said the officer to the traveler, gazing with a certain admiration at the device, with which he was, of course, thoroughly familiar.

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Once the machine is set in this position, this steel cable tightens up into a rod. An explorer arrives in a penal colony, at the invitation of its new commandant, to investigate its organization and report his findings to a commission created by the commandant. This franz kafka edition, containing in the penal colony and the judgement, only amounts to eighty pages.

The book describes the last use of an elaborate torture and execution device.

In the penal colony wasn't published until five years later, in 1919, though better late than never. Kafka trained as a lawyer and, after completing his legal education, obtained employment with an insurance company. The book describes the last use of an elaborate torture and execution device. Of course, interest in the execution was not very high even in the penal colony itself.