Franz Kafka - Apparatus: A Play based on 'In the Penal Colony' by Franz Kafka

by Franz Kafka, Ross Dinwiddy

Overview

You are cordially invited to attend a most unusual, mechanically achieved execution - death by means of a complex machine designed and constructed in a nightmare. The Traveller is only on the island for a few days, he's no fan of the brutal penal colony there, but he hopes to leave with plenty to write about. Today he's scheduled to watch a man die, but nothing has prepared him for an hour in the company of The Officer, the keeper and guardian of the hellish Apparatus. A play based on Kafka's prophetically terrifying yet darkly humorous 'In the Penal Colony' - a dramatic labyrinth of cruelty, obsession and madness.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780992644529
Publisher:	Dare Devil
Publication date:	04/23/2018
Pages:	66
Product dimensions:	5.08(w) x 7.80(h) x 0.14(d)

About the Author

Franz Kafka was born in 1883 in Prague, where he lived most of his life. During his lifetime, he published only a few short stories, including "The Metamorphosis", "The Judgement", and "The Stoker". He died in 1924, before completing any of his full-length novels. At the end of his life, Kafka asked his lifelong friend and literary executor Max Brod to burn all his unpublished work. Brod overrode those wishes.

Date of Birth:

July 3, 1883

Date of Death:

June 3, 1924

Place of Birth:

Prague, Austria-Hungary

Place of Death:

Vienna, Austria

Education:

German elementary and secondary schools. Graduated from German Charles-Ferdinand University of Prague.