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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

Uma noite de neve, um médico sem cavalo. Numa noite de inverno, um médico rural tem de ir ver um doente muito grave, numa aldeia distante. Há uma tempestade de neve e ele já não tem cavalo.

The world of the book

Um médico para todo um distrito. Na Europa Central do início do século XX, muitas aldeias não têm médico nem telefone. O médico rural é empregado do distrito e muitas vezes mal pago. Chamam-no a qualquer hora pela…

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