"The New Advocate" (German: "Der neue Advokat") is a

short story A short story is a piece of prose fiction that typically can be read in one sitting and focuses on a self-contained incident or series of linked incidents, with the intent of evoking a single effect or mood. The short story is one of the oldest ...

from A Country Doctor by

Franz Kafka Franz Kafka (3 July 1883 – 3 June 1924) was a German-speaking Bohemian novelist and short-story writer, widely regarded as one of the major figures of 20th-century literature. His work fuses elements of realism and the fantastic. It ...

. It is a very brief piece that illustrates Kafka's view of lawyers. A firm has hired a new associate, Bucephalos. The narrator realizes that times have changed, but hopes that people will hold back on any judgement and accept this new associate for who he is, and what he is capable of. One scholar has suggested that this story and Kafka's letters illustrate his distaste for the legal profession."Reclaiming Franz Kafka, Doctor of Jurisprudence" by G. Dargo, in ''Brandeis Law Journal'', 2006.

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{{DEFAULTSORT:New Advocate, The Short stories by Franz Kafka