A Country Doctor (Masterplots II: Short Story Series, Revised Edition)
At a glance:
- Author: Franz Kafka
- First Published: 1919
- Type of Plot: Fable
- Time of Work: The late nineteenth or early twentieth century
- Setting: Possibly rural Bohemia
- Principal Characters: A country doctor, A young boy, Rosa
- Genres: Fable, Short fiction
- Subjects: Rural or country life, Doctors, Sick persons
- Locales: Bohemia
The Story
On a snowy night, a country doctor desperately seeks a way to reach a very sick patient in a village some fifty miles away. His own horse died from overexertion the night before, and Rosa, his servant girl, has found no other horse in the village for his carriage. While absentmindedly searching his barnyard, he accidentally knocks open the door to an unused pigsty, only to find there two powerfully built horses and a groom. He instructs Rosa to help the groom hitch the horses to his carriage, but the groom attacks her as soon as she gets near him. The doctor climbs...
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