A Country Doctor (collection)

A Country Doctor
First edition
Author	Franz Kafka
Original title	Ein Landarzt
Language	German
Genre	Short story collection
Published	1919 (1920) (Kurt Wolff)
Media type	Print (Hardback)
ISBN	N/A
Original text	Ein Landarzt at German Wikisource

A Country Doctor (German: Ein Landarzt) is a collection of short stories written mostly in 1917 by Franz Kafka, containing the story of the same name. Kurt Wolff published it in 1919 as the second collection of stories by Kafka, after Betrachtung (Contemplation, 1912).

Kafka dedicated the collection to his father. He often recounted to Max Brod the reaction of his father when he presented it to him: "Lay it on my nightstand."

Der neue Advokat
Ein Landarzt (A Country Doctor)
Auf der Galerie (Up in the Gallery)
Ein altes Blatt (An Old Manuscript)
Vor dem Gesetz (Before the Law)
Schakale und Araber (Jackals and Arabs)
Ein Besuch im Bergwerk
Das nächste Dorf
Eine kaiserliche Botschaft (A Message from the Emperor)
Die Sorge des Hausvaters (The Cares of a Family Man)
Elf Söhne (Eleven Sons)
Ein Brudermord (A Fratricide)
Ein Traum
Ein Bericht für eine Akademie (A Report to an Academy)

Originally the short story The Bucket Rider was to be part of the volume but was retracted by Kafka before it was printed.

External links

German Wikisource has original text related to this article:

Ein Landarzt (Sammelband)

Works by Franz Kafka

Novels

Der Process (The Trial)
Das Schloss (The Castle)
Amerika

Short stories

1902–12	"Shamefaced Lanky and Impure in Heart" "Description of a Struggle" "Wedding Preparations in the Country" "Das Urteil" ("The Judgement") "The Stoker" "Die Verwandlung" ("The Metamorphosis") "The Aeroplanes At Brescia"

1914–17	"In the Penal Colony" "The Village Schoolmaster" ("The Giant Mole") "Before the Law" "Blumfeld, an Elderly Bachelor" "The Warden of the Tomb" "A Country Doctor" "The Hunter Gracchus" "The Great Wall of China" "A Message from the Emperor" "A Report to an Academy" "A Dream" "Up in the Gallery" "A Fratricide" "The Next Village" "A Visit to a Mine" "Jackals and Arabs" "The Bridge" "The Bucket Rider" "The New Advocate" "An Old Manuscript" "The Knock at the Manor Gate" "Eleven Sons" "My Neighbor" "A Crossbreed" "The Cares of a Family Man"

1917–23	"The Refusal" "A Hunger Artist" "Investigations of a Dog" "A Little Woman" "The Burrow" "Josephine the Singer, or the Mouse Folk" "A Common Confusion" "The Truth about Sancho Panza" "The Silence of the Sirens" "Prometheus" "The City Coat of Arms" "Poseidon" "Fellowship" "At Night" "The Problem of Our Laws" "The Conscription of Troops" "The Test" "The Vulture" "The Helmsman" "The Top" "A Little Fable" "Home-Coming" "First Sorrow" "The Departure" "Advocates" "The Married Couple" "Give It Up!" "On Parables"

Short story
collections

Betrachtung (Contemplation) (1912)
Ein Landarzt (A Country Doctor) (1919)
Ein Hungerkünstler (A Hunger Artist) (1924)
Beim Bau der Chinesischen Mauer (The Great Wall of China) (1931)
The Complete Stories
The Sons
The Penal Colony
Parables and Paradoxes
Dearest Father
Description of a Struggle

Diaries and
notebooks

Letters

Professional
writings

The Office Writings

Bibliography