A Country Doctor (1919)

by Franz Kafka

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Loved: Before the Law, Kafka couldn't have presented our law in a better analogy! Th brilliance of it all left me breathless and sad because there was sooooo much truth in his words!

Hated: Jackals and Arabs, that was just one mean story! Why point out a certain nation? If he wanted to write this he could have used the Martians for all anyone cared! But just using a race shows that here Kafka's main aim was not presenting a story or even good story telling technique but to present his mere hatred for a nation... (

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Written during the winter of 1916-17 when Kafka was living in one of the tiny houses on Golden Lane (formerly Alchimistengasse) at Prague Castle, and published in spring 1920 by Kurt Wolff Verlag, the 14 short fictions comprising this volume are interconnected by a persistent exploration of identity, where even animals anthropomorphize into a new identity. "Before the Law," "A Country Doctor," and "A Report for an Academy" are among the most renowned stories he produced, and Kevin Blahut has rendered them in an English that is contemporary and fresh, capturing perfectly the nightmarish humor of Kafka's prose.

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