The Metamorphosis and Other Stories

There is no one who could force his way through here, least of all with a message from a dead man.—But you sit at your window and dream it up as evening falls.

he a beast if music could move him so?

more liberal, enlightened ethos of the visiting traveller from Europe

sinister forces of the old régime are not dead

colonial settlements in Africa or the Caribbean

accounts of the notorious French colony of Devil’s Island.

issues of guilt, justice, punishment and atonement

historical watershed between a shockingly arbitrary and barbarous penal system

Samsa has a similar vowel/consonant pattern to ‘Kafka’

In the Penal Colony