A Country Doctor contains all the texts that Franz Kafka himself published for newspapers and magazines, as well as in books: Contemplation, The Judgment, The Stoker, The Metamorphosis, In the Penal Colony, A Country Doctor, A Hunger Artist. "It seems so terrible to remain a bachelor, as an old man, to ask for admission under heavy preservation of dignity... to have only side doors in his room that lead into foreign apartments..." "Kafka's novellas are events of unheard occurrences, in the sense of Goethe's definition. Their clear and simple architecture, however, provides glimpses into all the secrets and abysses of the soul." Rudolf Kayser.