‘In the Penal Colony’ by Franz Kafka, translated by Michael Hofmann

The subversion of our sense of reality is sometimes the best way to evoke it. 

First published as ‘In der Strafkolonie’, Wolff in October 1919. Widely collected in English, including in Metamorphosis and Other Stories, Penguin Modern Classics, 2007

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