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Diversions
An English translation of Hjalmar Söderberg's first novel, Förvillelser (1895). It recounts the tragicomic exploits of Tomas Weber, flâneur, bon vivant and occasional medical student, in love and money.
Resan Till Rom
Resan till Rom (1929) är en novellsamling av Hjalmar Söderberg. Originalspråk.
A Baedeker of Decadence
During the final decades of the nineteenth century, a common mind-set emerged among many intellectuals--"la decadence." Many novels and novellas of the period were populated with protagonists who were fragile, refined, self-absorbed, and preoccupied with a trivially exquisite aesthetic. A Baedeker of Decadence presents thirty-two international works of literary decadence written between 1884 and 1927. George C. Schoolfield, a world authority on the decadent novel, offers an entertaining and wide-ranging commentary on this highly significant literary and cultural phenomenon. Schoolfield tracks down the symptoms of decadence in narrative works written in more than a dozen languages, providing synopses and passages in English translation to give a sense of each author's style and tone. Schoolfield throws new light on the close intellectual kinship of authors from August Strindberg to Bram Stoker to Thomas Mann, and on the ingredients, themes, motifs, and preconceptions that characterized decadent literature.
The Serious Game
Sweden's most celebrated and enduring love story.
Martin Birck's Youth
Hjalmar Soderberg's second novel was originally published in 1901, and traces the development of the hero from a seemingly idyllic Stockholm childhood to maturity. It is a book with 'fin de siecle' themes - melancholy, eroticism and decadence.
Honoré Daumier
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Doctor Glas
WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY MARGARET ATWOOD '[A] searing masterwork of Northern European literature. The retrieval of Doctor Glas in English is a bracing gift to hungry readers' Susan Sontag 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. 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.
Acta Horti Bergiani
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