"Ein Landarzt: Kleine Erzählungen" by Franz Kafka is a collection of short stories published in 1920. The title story follows an elderly country doctor summoned on a winter night to treat a gravely ill patient. When his horse dies, mysterious steeds and a threatening stranger appear, propelling him into a nightmarish journey. Torn between professional duty and personal loss, the doctor confronts an incurable wound and hostile villagers. His desperate attempt to return home becomes an endless, freezing ordeal through darkness.