Prawa pisane krwią, nie atramentem. Interpretacja Kolonii karnej Franza Kafki
Laws Written in Blood, Not Ink. Interpretation of In the "Penal Colony" by Franz Kafka

Summary/Abstract: The aim of the article is to analyse a short story by Franz Kafka In the Penal Colony(In der Strafkolonie). At the beginning, the circumstances surrounding the creation of thenovel were described. After that the images of the colonizers (Officer, Explorer) andthe colonized (Condemned, Soldier) were presented. Thereafter, the process of justice andmechanism of execution – the use of an elaborate torture device that carves the sentenceof the prisoner on his skin – were interpreted. In the last part of the article the attitude ofKafka towards process of decolonization was described.

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