Editions

Doctor Glas

  • Imprint: Vintage Classics

  • ISBN: 9781784875480

  • Length: 160  Pages

  • Dimensions: 198mm x 9mm x 129mm

  • Weight: 133g

  • RRP: £9.99

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.

  • Imprint: Vintage Classics

  • ISBN: 9781784875480

  • Length: 160  Pages

  • Dimensions: 198mm x 9mm x 129mm

  • Weight: 133g

  • RRP: £9.99

Reviews

  • [A] searing masterwork of Northern European literature. The retrieval of Doctor Glas in English is a bracing gift to hungry readers

    Susan Sontag

  • Splendid... Söderberg [is] a marvellous writer

    The New Yorker

  • [Doctor Glas] not only sketches the light and shadows of its time, but maps territory still being explored by the writers of today. It is a volcano, shaking, about to erupt

    The New York Times Book Review

  • Elegant, vigorous, and tightly-knit... One of those marvellous books that appears as fresh and vivid now as on the day it was published... It occurs on the cusp of the nineteenth and the twentieth centuries, but it opens doors the novel has been opening ever since

    Margaret Atwood, from the introduction

About the Author

Hjalmar Soderberg

Hjalmar S-derberg, 1869-1941, was a civil servant and then a journalist before becoming a full-time writer. His novels include Martin Birck's Youth (1901), Doctor Glas (1905) - widely regarded as his masterpiece - and The Serious Game (1912). S-derberg's play Gertrud (1906) was made into a film by Carl Dreyer.

Hjalmar Soderberg

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