Read A Day Club on Instagram: "My thoughts on one of Franz Kafka's short stories, In The Penal Colony. If you've read and appreciated the existentialism, absurdity, and isolation in works like Dostoevsky's Notes from Underground, Beckett's Waiting for Godot, Sartre's Nausea, Hermann Hesse's Steppenwolf, or Kobo Abe's The Woman in the Dunes, you'll love this one. #bookreview #books #classics #franzkafka #booksofig #inthepenalcolony #fiction #shortstory #literature #bookrecommendations #readersofi

Read A Day Club on Instagram: "How To Read - Episode 6 You don’t read absurd stories for plot. Not always anyway. Sometimes, you read them to notice the patterns, the pauses, the silence, and the endless waiting. Reading absurdity can seem despairing (for many even depressing) but it’s one of the best tools to see the human condition as it is –and sometimes, it’s about taking life less seriously. So this is one of the reasons why I read absurd literature. #howtoread #readingtips #absurdliteratur