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The Judgement and In the Penal Colony -  Franz Kafka Dodgy NarratorThe Judgement: (Das Urteil) Written night of Sept 22/23 1912 and first published in the annual magazine 'Arkadia', Leipzig 1913. First book publication, Kurt Wolff Verlag, lepzig, 1916)Opening: It was on a Sunday morning in the loveliest part of the spring, Georg Bendemann, a young merchant, sat in his room on the second floor of one of the low, lightly built houses that extended along the river in a long line, differing, if at all, only in height and colouration.-------------In The Penal Colony: (In der Strafkolonie) Written mid-October 1914 and first published as a book in 1919.Opening: "It's amachine like no other," said the officer to the explorer, as he surveyed the machine with a somewhat admiring look, although he was so familiar with it.You see, the machine needs to keep going for twelve hours uninterruptedly.