A Country Doctor (short story collection)

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A Country Doctor
First edition
Author	Franz Kafka
Original title	Ein Landarzt
Language	German
Genre	Short story collection
Published	1919 (1920) (Kurt Wolff)
Media type	Print (hardback)
Original text	Ein Landarzt at German Wikisource

A Country Doctor (German: Ein Landarzt) is a collection of short stories written mostly in 1917 by Franz Kafka, containing the story of the same name. Kurt Wolff published it in 1919 as the second collection of stories by Kafka, after Betrachtung (Contemplation, 1912).

Kafka dedicated the collection to his father. He often recounted to Max Brod the reaction of his father when he presented it to him: "Lay it on my nightstand."

The stories themselves have one thing in particular in common: somewhere, whether at the beginning or later in the course of the text, an unsettling moment, which is sometimes termed the "Kafka Paradox", occurs.

Der neue Advokat (The New Advocate)
Ein Landarzt (A Country Doctor)
Auf der Galerie (Up in the Gallery)
Ein altes Blatt (An Old Manuscript)
Vor dem Gesetz (Before the Law)
Schakale und Araber (Jackals and Arabs)
Ein Besuch im Bergwerk (A Visit to the Mine)
Das nächste Dorf (The Next Village)
Eine kaiserliche Botschaft (A Message from the Emperor)
Die Sorge des Hausvaters (The Cares of a Family Man)
Elf Söhne (Eleven Sons)
Ein Brudermord (A Fratricide)
Ein Traum (A Dream)
Ein Bericht für eine Akademie (A Report to an Academy)

Originally the short story "Der Kübelreiter" (The Bucket Rider) was to be included as well, but it was retracted by Kafka before the book was printed.

References

Kafka, Franz (2017). A Country Doctor. Prague: Vitalis Verlag. p. 95. ISBN 978-80-7253-325-1.

External links

Franz Kafka, "A dream" ("Ein Traum") short story from: "A country doctor". Full text (EN DE FR IT ES CH)

Franz Kafka (works)

Novels

Short stories

1902–1912	"Shamefaced Lanky and Impure in Heart" "Description of a Struggle" "Wedding Preparations in the Country" "The Judgment" "The Stoker" The Metamorphosis "The Aeroplanes at Brescia"
1914–1917	"In the Penal Colony" "The Village Schoolmaster" "Before the Law" "Blumfeld, an Elderly Bachelor" "A Country Doctor" "The Hunter Gracchus" "The Great Wall of China" "A Message from the Emperor" "A Report to an Academy" "A Dream" "Up in the Gallery" "A Fratricide" "The Next Village" "A Visit to a Mine" "Jackals and Arabs" "The Bridge" "The Bucket Rider" "The New Advocate" "An Old Manuscript" "The Knock at the Manor Gate" "Eleven Sons" "My Neighbor" "A Crossbreed" "The Cares of a Family Man"
1917–1923	"The Refusal" "A Hunger Artist" "Investigations of a Dog" "A Little Woman" "The Burrow" "Josephine the Singer, or the Mouse Folk" "A Common Confusion" "The Truth about Sancho Panza" "The Silence of the Sirens" "Prometheus" "The City Coat of Arms" "Poseidon" "Fellowship" "At Night" "The Problem of Our Laws" "The Conscription of Troops" "The Test" "The Vulture" "The Helmsman" "The Top" "A Little Fable" "Homecoming" "First Sorrow" "The Departure" "Advocates" "The Married Couple" "Give It Up!" "On Parables"

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