SOURCE: Sussman, Henry. “The Text That Was Never a Story: Symmetry and Disaster in ‘A Country Doctor.’” In Approaches to Teaching Kafka's Short Fiction, edited by Richard T. Gray, pp. 123-34. New York: The Modern Language Association of America, 1995.
In the following essay, Sussman argues that the structure of “The Country Doctor” creates an extended metaphor, but not a complete story.
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