This article aims at supplying an analytical reading of Franz Kafka’s A Country Doctor (1917) and Sadegh Hedayat’s Three Drops of Blood (1932). It also concentrates on the close affinities between these two narratives. Not only that Hedayat has been influenced by Kafka, both writers show great impact of Freud on their work of art. Thus the focus of attention has been put on Freudian psychoanalysis. As to justify why the stories are told in the form of dreams, a secondary analytic reading has been carried out by devoting emphasis on the school of surrealism, its stress on the unconscious. Given these analytic frameworks, the article emphases on two major characters/narrators and the way they deal unsuccessfully with their surroundings, incidents, and other characters so as to create a balance between the internal conflicting forces of their personality. This paper concludes that both narratives are following roughly the same pattern of thought and ideology.

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