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The Country Doctor and Other Stories

Franz Kafka

The Country Doctor and Other Stories

Paper book: €14.99

Digital: €3.99

Original publication
1919
Monolingual
22 October 2026
Pages
139
Difficulty
Medium
Genres
Philosophy, Psychology
Moods
Get the chills, Think it through, Understand myself
Translated from
German

Book summary

Called out at night in a snowstorm, a country doctor has no horse to make the journey. In a penal colony, an officer proudly shows a visitor a strange execution machine. A hunger artist goes weeks without eating in his cage, while the crowd slowly loses interest.

In these three unsettling stories by Kafka, everyday life tips into nightmare without warning, and you do not forget them.

Short and written in precise sentences, they can each be read in one sitting in the language you are learning.

The plot

雪の夜、馬のいない医者。冬の夜、田舎医者は遠い村の重病人のもとへ行かねばならない。吹雪の中、馬はもういない。

The world of the book

ひとつの地区を一人で支える医者。20世紀初めの中央ヨーロッパでは、多くの村に医者も電話もない。田舎医者は地区に雇われ、給料はたいてい安い。家の夜間の呼び鈴でいつでも呼び出され、雪の中でも馬一頭立ての馬車で出かける。カフカはこのごく現実的な世界から出発し、やがてそれを夢の中へ傾けていく。

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