A Country Doctor and The Bucket Rider by Franz Kafka - a podcast by The Story King

Season 2: Episode 2

Today we read two short stories by Franz Kafka

Franz Kafka was a german-speaking Ashkenazi Jew from Prague. He lived from 1883 to 1924. He was only 40 when he died. His most famous novella, “The Metamorphosis,” is about a protagonist named Gregor Samsa, who wakes up one morning and discovers he’s been transformed into a large cockroach of some sort. You may have heard the term “kafkaesque,” which is used to describe stories that employ similar magical realism techniques that Kafka used. I’m a big fan of his, so I wanted to read a couple of his shorter lesser known works.

The first story we’re reading today is called, “A Country Doctor,” and the second is called “The Bucket Rider.”

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