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In the Penal Colony is an interesting story, like all of Kafka’s stories I have read so far. Humanness and death and indifference to it all.

If I were Gregor I would have metamorphosed into a curl grub. Like Gregor I am a burdening presence on my family, and I hope that when I finally lay still they will be contented too.

I like some of these short stories, some short enough to be read as poems. My favourites so far are: Resolutions, The Way Home, The Passenger, and The Window on to the Street. Bleak humanness. I want to learn German so that I can read them with the original nuance and wring the meaning from the words.