Ian Curtis of the band Joy Division was inspired by "In the Penal Colony" to write the song "Colony" from the album Closer.
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Frank Zappa, in the liner notes of the Mothers of Invention album We're Only in It for the Money, recommends reading the short story before listening to the track "The Chrome Plated Megaphone of Destiny."
Cape Colony | MacDowell Colony | colony | Gold Coast (British colony) | Colony | Plymouth Colony | Massachusetts Bay Colony | Red River Colony | Swan River Colony | Transvaal Colony | Orange River Colony | Colony of Virginia | Roanoke Colony | Penal transportation | penal transportation | Old Colony Railroad | Trustees for the Establishment of the Colony of Georgia in America | Pilgrim (Plymouth Colony) | Hindu colony | Crown Colony | Crown colony | Connecticut Colony | bird colony | art colony | William Bradford (Plymouth Colony governor) | The Colony | International Association of Penal Law | Colony of Vancouver Island | clonal colony | artists' colony |
The book includes comic adaptations of some of Kafka's most famous works including The Metamorphosis, "A Hunger Artist", "In the Penal Colony", and "The Judgment", as well as brief sketches of his three novels The Trial, The Castle, and Amerika.
In the Penal Colony, a short story by Franz Kafka illustrated by Michael Hafftka, Limited Editions Club 1987, ASIN B003Y7OW8W