Full name: A Country Doctor: Short Stories

Author: Franz Kafka Year: 1918 Rank: Rating: Original Rating: Pop Rating: Genres/categories: Fiction, Short Stories, Classic, Philosophy Purchase/reserch links: LibraryThing Goodreads Amazon ISBNs: 9788090217140 8090217141

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. 1. The New Advocate 2. A Country Doctor 3. Up in the Gallery 4. A Leaf from an Old Manuscript 5. Before the Law 6. Jackals and Arabs 7. A Visit to the Mine 8. The Next Village 9. A Message from the Emperor 10. A Problem for the Father of the Family 11. Eleven Sons 12. A Fratricide 13. A Dream 14. Report to the Academy Similar books: The Basic Kafka by Franz Kafka A Hunger Artist by Franz Kafka In the Penal Colony by Franz Kafka Three Paths to the Lake by Ingeborg Bachmann The Trial by Franz Kafka The Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka The Castle by Franz Kafka The Great Wall of China by Franz Kafka The Book of Laughter and Forgetting by Milan Kundera Amerika by Franz Kafka The Garden of Forking Paths by Jorge Luis Borges Stories of Three Decades by Thomas Mann The Marquise of O by Heinrich von Kleist The Complete Stories by Franz Kafka Summer Lies by Bernhard Schlink 18 Stories by Heinrich Boll Apocryphal Tales by Karel ÄŒapek The Four Million by O. Henry Stories in an Almost Classical Mode by Harold Brodkey