A Country Doctor = Short Stories

Germany: Vitalis, 2014. Hard Back. Very Good/No Dust Jacket. 5" x 8 1/2. Hruska, Karel. 99 Pages. Beautiful new gift quality condition. Blue silk bookmark. Cover image (top): A country doctor on his rounds prior to the First World War. Cover image (bottom): The Golden Lane about 1910. At Endpapers are copied from the original publication. the Prague Castle, in the Golden Lane, Franz Kafka wrote these short stories, which were published in his lifetime under the title A Country Doctor. In all of these stories, Kafka conjures up a partly irrational, partly unpredictable, and always frightening world that is difficult to escape. In one case, malfunctioning doctor's bell triggers a series of misfortunes and in another case, strange nomads appear against whom even the Emperor is powerless. Talking jackals over the indefinable Odradek lead the reader into the surreal. Is there a way out of the terror? The keeper of the Law provides an answer - It's possible, but not now. Contents in Fifteen Short Stories: The New Attorney, A Country Doctor, In the Gallery, An Old Document, Before the Law, Jackals and Arabs, A Visit to a Mine, The Next Village, An Imperial Message, The Concern of the Head of a Family, Eleven Sons, A Fratricide. A Dream, A Report for an Academy, and The Creation and Impact of the Text. Printed and bound in the European Union.