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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,沒有馬的醫生。冬夜,鄉村醫生必須趕往遠村,去看一位重病人。暴風雪肆虐,他已經沒有馬了。

The world of the book

一位醫生,管一整個區。20世紀初的中歐,許多村莊既沒有醫生,也沒有電話。鄉村醫生受僱於區政府,薪水往往很低。家裡的夜鈴隨時會把他喚起,他便乘著一匹馬拉的馬車出門,哪怕大雪紛飛。卡夫卡從這個十分真實的世界出發,再讓它滑入夢境。

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