| Doctor Glas Contributor(s): Soderberg, Hjalmar (Author) |
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ISBN: 0385722672 ISBN-13: 9780385722674 Publisher: Anchor Books OUR PRICE: $13.50 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: August 2002 Annotation: Stark, brooding, and enormously controversial when first published in 1905, this astonishing novel juxtaposes impressions of fin-de-siecle 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. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Fiction | Psychological - Fiction | Classics - Fiction | Literary |
| Dewey: FIC |
| LCCN: 2002066458 |
| Physical Information: 0.43" H x 5.2" W x 7.96" (0.37 lbs) 160 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: 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-si cle 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 Eug nie 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 |
