Brains (Masterplots II: Short Story Series, Revised Edition)
At a glance:
- Author: Gottfried Benn
- First Published: 1915
- Type of Plot: Psychological
- Time of Work: 1914
- Setting: Germany
- Principal Characters: Rönne
- Genres: Psychological fiction, Short fiction
- Subjects: Traveling or travelers, Doctors, Emotions, Nursing or nurses, Germany or German people, Hospitals, Intellect, Anatomy, Patients, Touch
- Locales: Germany
The Story
A young doctor named Rönne is riding a train in southern Germany, on his way north to stand in for a clinic doctor who is going away on holiday. For the past two years, Rönne has worked in pathology. After having two thousand bodies pass through his hands, he feels strangely exhausted.
As he rides the train, he notes such sights as scarlet fields that seem to be on fire with poppies and houses that appear to be propped up by roses. He thinks to himself that he should buy a notebook and pencil with which to record things before they pass out of sight. He...
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