(НЕ)ЗЕМАЉСКИ СМИСАО ЛЕКА КОД КАФКЕ (СЕОСКИ ЛЕКАР)
(UN)EARTHLY MEANING OF CURE IN KAFKA’S SHORT STORY “A COUNTRY DOCTOR”

Summary/Abstract: The paper analyses the meanings of healing and “unearthly horses” as central motifs in Kafka’s short story “A Country Doctor”. The setting in this text is expressionistic: the first-person narrative portrays the vision of the world as disorientation in the incomprehensible reality. Nevertheless, the expressionistic subjectivity is elaborated through a symbolical system of relations between motifs which suggest the metaphysical justification of the world. The subjective anxiety reflects not only the existential imperilment of the individual, but also one’s inability to respond to axiological laws of life. The origin of the cure needed for a human being is not material, but spiritual, and the doctor is not invited by a physical person, but is summoned by a soul that yearns for salvation.

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