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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.
Doctor Glas
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. A masterpiece of enduring power, Doctor Glas confronts a chilling moral quandary with gripping intensity.
The Serious Game
Sweden's most celebrated and enduring love story.
Doctor Glas
The haunting tale of Doctor Glas takes place in Stockholm during the closing years of the 1800s.The doctor, a troubled and compassionate man, relates the strange story of the Reverend Gregorius and his pretty wife. Gregorius, an elderly and offensive pastor, has endangered her physical and mental health. She consults Doctor Glas, who for the first time violates the ethics of his profession and uses a highly unorthodox method of helping her. But when the wife takes a lover, and Doctor Glas becomes emotionally attached to her, an intolerable situation develops. The uxorious pastor dies, poisoned. The aftermath of his death and the doctor's unforeseen reactions to it bring the story to a chilling, horrifying close.Originally published in 1905, Doctor Glas is a novel of extraordinary immediacy and frankness. Its concerns -sexual incompatibility, abortion, euthanasia -together with its psychological insights, make it a remarkably modern work.
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.
The Core of the Sun
The Finnish author of Troll: A Love Story delivers a work of “scathing satire . . . that sits somewhere between Margaret Atwood and Kurt Vonnegut” (NPR). The Core of the Sun further cements Finlandia Award–winning author Johanna Sinisalo’s reputation as a master of literary speculative fiction and of her country’s unique take on it, dubbed “Finnish weird.” In an alternative historical present, The Eusistocratic Republic of Finland has bred a new human sub-species of receptive, submissive women, called eloi, for sex and procreation, while intelligent, independent women are relegated to menial labor and sterilized so that they do not carry on their “defective” line. Vanna, ra...
Short Stories
A collection of the most popular and well known stories by Soderberg, whose clear-sighted affection for Stockholm shines through each.
Martin Birck's Youth
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Resan Till Rom
Resan till Rom (1929) är en novellsamling av Hjalmar Söderberg. Originalspråk.
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.
