A masterpiece of enduring power, Doctor Glas confronts 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-siècle 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 Eugénie 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

Doctor Glas: A Novel

Literature & Fiction

Söderberg, Hjalmar

United States

Anchor

Sweden at the turn of the previous century. Arvid, an ambitious and well-educated young man, meets Lydia, the daughter of a landscape painter, during an idyllic summer vacation and falls in love. Lydia, however, has other suitors, and Astrid is frightened of being tied down by his emotions. Trapped inside loveless marriages of convenience, they struggle in later years to rekindle the promise of their romance with bitter and tragic results.
Hjalmar Soderberg, born in Stockholm, in 1869, was one Scandinavia's leading modernist writers. The Serious Game is Sweden's most celebrated and enduring love story.

Serious Game

Literary

Marion Boyars Publishers Ltd

F#65533;rvillelser by Hjalmar S#65533;derberg 1895Original Swedish edition published by Albert Bonnier Publishing.English language translation (c) 2012 by Kempton Mooney.Delusions is the story of Thomas Weber, a recent graduate who does not know what to do with his life. Instead of studying, he runs around Stockholm, watching people stroll and visiting cafes. He falls in love with girls and falls into debt. But when the loans come due and he has no way to pay, his life of leisure catches up to him.

Delusions

CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform

Diversions

BARRETT, DAVID

Classics

First published in Sweden in 1901, Hjalmar S#65533;derberg's partly autobiographical second novel traces the development of his hero, an introspective would-be intellectual, from an idyllic Stockholm childhood in the 1870s to the hopes and disillusionments of early manhood. This is a new English translation of the work.

Martin Birck's Youth

Into the lonely life of the relentlessly introspective Doctor Glas steps the young and beautiful Helga Gregorius, plagued by the attentions of her ageing husband. Thus begins the struggle between thought and action that drives the plot of Hjalmar Söderberg’s most celebrated novel, as Doctor Glas starts to weigh a deed that would liberate Helga, and perhaps himself too. Hjalmar Söderberg (1869–1941) is considered one of the greatest writers in the Swedish language. Doctor Glas, originally published in 1905, was his third novel. This is a new English translation of the work.

Doctor Glas

Historietter

Short Stories & Anthologies

WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY MARGARET ATWOOD\n'[A] searing masterwork of Northern European literature. The retrieval of Doctor Glas in English is a bracing gift to hungry readers' Susan Sontag\nLonely 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.\nStark, brooding, and enormously controversial when first published in 1905, this astonishing novel juxtaposes impressions of fin-de-siècle Stockholm against the psychological landscape of a man besieged by obsession.

Biographies & Memoirs

Arts & Literature

Vintage Classics

"Soderberg (1869-1941) has a considerable reputation in Sweden for his essays, Reviews, Novels, Plays and short stories, and this collection of 26 tales covers a wide range of topics, Including philosophy, Religion, Politics and the gamut of human e

Short Stories (Norvik Press Series B) (English and Swedish Edition)

Norvik Pr

Originally published in 1901, this partly autobiographical second novel established Söderberg's reputation for shocking boldness yet great elegance. It traces the development of the hero from a seemingly idyllic Stockholm childhood to maturity as a thirty-year-old man, an introspective outsider, critical of society, constantly searching for the truth but going through a gradual process of disillusionment. He dreams of being a poet, but is too melancholic to break free from his modest bureaucratic career, and slowly drifts towards nihilism and aestheticism. Martin Birck's Youth is a book rich in fin de siècle themes - melancholy, eroticism and decadence abound. The Stockholm depicted here with lyrical beauty is a haunting city of shadows and snowstorms, suppressed passion and loneliness. The conflict between dreams and reality which occurs in so many novels of the period is central to the novel, and its preoccupation with issues of free will, determinism and morality prefigures Söderberg's next novel, the highly acclaimed Dr. Glas (in which Martin Birck makes a cameo appearance).

Martin Birck's Youth: A Novel

Ellett, Tom

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Doctor Glas: A Novel

Serious Game

Delusions

Diversions

Martin Birck's Youth

Doctor Glas

Historietter

Doctor Glas

Short Stories (Norvik Press Series B) (English and Swedish Edition)

Martin Birck's Youth: A Novel