Penal Colony

Penal Colony is a story of crime and punishment written by Franz Kafka in the first days of World War I and published a year after the war ended. The story, told through the eyes of a traveler tasked with examining a penal apparatus designed with unusual complexity in action on an unnamed island, is a surreal fable about the violence of the war years, the irrationality of totalitarian regimes, and the helplessness of the individual in the face of authoritarian regimes.

Kafka's work symbolizes the horror and anxieties of the twentieth century; It puts people into writing at the extreme point.

The world of realities important to Kafka was invisible.

Max Brod

[Kafka] spoke for millions in man's modern-day unrest; When we look at the century that has passed since his birth, he can be seen as the last sacred writer and the supreme fable writer who conveys the cosmic dilemma of modern man.

John Updike

... all these signs of poverty of a language are found in Kafka, but they are put to creative use... they are at the service of a new frugality, a new richness of expression, a new flexibility, a new intensity.

Klaus Wagenbach quoted by Gilles Deleuze – Félix Guattari

(From the Promotional Bulletin)

Dough Type: 2nd Dough

Number of Pages: 56

Size: 13.5 x 21

First Print Year: 2019

Number of Printings: 1st Edition

Language Turkish