A Country Doctor

About “A Country Doctor”

"A Country Doctor" is a short story written in 1917 by Franz Kafka. It first appeared in Kurt Wolff's 1918 anthology Die Neue Dichtung and later in 1920 as the title story in Kafka's second collection of stories. The story follows a country doctor who makes an emergency visit to a sick patient on a winter night. He encounters a series of absurd and surreal challenges that lead to his downfall. The narrative reflects Kafka's typical themes of alienation and existential struggle. (Summary adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.)