The story “Penal Colony” by Franz Kafka has no plot. It is a rather detailed, in fact a very detailed, description of execution. The description is so naturalistic and cruel that some readers may want to halt reading.
In the beginning, the reader hates the officer conducting the execution, who is so proud of it, and explains it in such detail and with such passion. Yet, the denouement is very unexpected. It seems like the world has changed.
Definitely, it is a brutal book, but interesting with a rapidly changing main idea and course of events.
Here is the link to the text of the story:
https://arts.uwaterloo.ca/~raha/793CA_web/PenalColony.pdf
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