The Penal Colony
Stories and Short Pieces
Description:... "This volume brings together everything that Franz Kafka himself published during his lifetime, all those works, that is, which he thought finished enough to permit of their being published. We know that Kafka possessed a fanatical artistic scrupulosity, one that rivaled Flaubert's in its rigor, and so it comes as no surprise that this collection should also be the most powerful Kafka volume ever published"--
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