Doctor Glas by Hjalmar Soderberg

Doctor Glas by Hjalmar Soderberg

A masterpiece of enduring power,Doctor Glasconfronts a chilling moral quandary with gripping intensity.With an introduction by Margaret Atwood.

Stark, brooding, and enormously controversial when first published in 1905, this astonishing novel juxtaposes impressions of fin-de-si cle Stockholm against the psychological landscape of a man besieged by obsession. Lonely and introspective, Doctor Glas has long felt an instinctive hostility toward the odious local minister. So when the minister's beautiful wife complains of her husband's oppressive sexual attentions, Doctor Glas finds himself contemplating murder.

"Imagine the classic nineteenth-century drama featuring a tyrannical older man, his hapless daughter or young wife, and her caddish suitor, as in Balzac's Eugenie Grandet and Henry James's Washington Square, this time conjured up by a sensibility akin to Strindberg's and Ingmar Bergman's-and you begin to have an idea of the force and candor of this searing masterwork of Nothern European literature. The retrieval of Doctor Glas in English is a bracing gift to hungry readers."-Susan Sontag

He was born and raised in Stockholm and lived in Copenhagen for the last twenty-five years of his life. He switched to journalism after working as a government servant and finally dedicated himself full-time to a literary career. He also published short stories, dramas, literary criticism, and philosophical writings regarding religion in addition to novels. He has received accolades for his fictional vignettes of Stockholm life, as well as for being a pioneer in the application of psychoanalytic theory and stream-of-consciousness in fiction.

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ISBN 13	9780385722674
ISBN 10	0385722672
Title	Doctor Glas
Author	Hjalmar Soderberg
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Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Random House USA Inc
Year published	2002-08-13
Number of pages	160
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