CHAPTER I
THE COUNTRYSIDE
AND THE MAN
On a lovely spring morning in the year 1829, a man
of fifty or thereabouts was wending his way on horseback
along the mountain road that leads to a large village
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The French novelist Honoré de Balzac (1799-1850) was the first writer to use fiction to convey the total social scene prevailing within one country at a particular period in its history. Common...
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Had Balzac been a less masterful novelist, the disreputably profligate fraud in him might have overwhelmed his artistry. Still, the other Balzac, the artist, is tainted by his well-earned reputation f...
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In the following essay, Tobias examines the character of the doctor in “Ein Landarzt” in order to analyze his purpose of and the question of to whose sickbed is he called.
Of all the ...
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In the following essay, Brancato interprets Franz Kafka's "A Country Doctor" as a work concerned with the ultimate inadequacy of science.
Kafka's "A Country Docto...
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The Country Doctor
Honoré de Balzac
Honore de Balzac
Critical Essay by Rochelle Tobias
