Keefe Brasselle

German Literature Topic: The physicality and sexuality repressed by Kafka’s protagonists, usually busy professional men, returns in frightening or disgusting forms’. Discuss this statement with reference to Ein Landarzt. A country doctor has to visit a patient in a village located ten miles away form his residence but his horse has just died because of the harsh winter. Opening the pigsty of his farm, the doctor discovers a squatted man who agrees to lend his two beautiful and powerful horses