A Country Doctor (short story collection)
A Country Doctor 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.
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." He also wrote to Brod that he did not think that his dedication of the title story to his father "could appease my father... the roots of our antagonism are too deep".
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
- Ein Landarzt
- Auf der Galerie
- Ein altes Blatt
- Vor dem Gesetz
- Schakale und Araber
- Ein Besuch im Bergwerk
- Das nächste Dorf
- Eine kaiserliche Botschaft
- Die Sorge des Hausvaters
- Elf Söhne
- Ein Brudermord
- Ein Traum
- Ein Bericht für eine Akademie