Dr. Glas
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Doctor Glas is a 1905 epistolary novel by Hjalmar Söderberg which tells the story of a physician in 19th-century Sweden who deals with moral and love issues. Synopsis. The novel is about Dr. Tyko Gabriel Glas who is a respected physician in Stockholm. The story is told in the form of a diary and follows Doctor Glas as he struggles with depression.
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.
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Hjalmar Söderberg: Doktor Glas (Doctor Glas) This novel has the status of a Swedish classic and it is not difficult to see why. It deals frankly with extramarital sex, murder, abortion and the right of a woman both to submit to her husband’s sexual demands, issues which might not seem so controversial today but certainly were in 1905 ...
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.
- Paperback
Aug 19, 2019 · Doctor Glas : a novel by Söderberg, Hjalmar, 1869-1941. Publication date 1963 Publisher London : Chatto & Windus Collection trent_university ...
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.
Oct 7, 2009 · 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...
