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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

雪夜,没有马的医生。冬夜,乡村医生必须赶往远村,去看一位重病人。暴风雪肆虐,他已经没有马了。

The world of the book

一位医生,管一整个区。20世纪初的中欧,许多村庄既没有医生,也没有电话。乡村医生受雇于区政府,薪水往往很低。家里的夜铃随时会把他唤起,他便乘着一匹马拉的马车出门,哪怕大雪纷飞。卡夫卡从这个十分真实的世界出发,再让它滑入梦境。

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