Doctor Glas

click here for more details, find new or used items	Hjalmar Soderberg Used from £5.02 Pages: 160 (Paperback) ISBN: 0385722672 Pub: Anchor Books Pub date: 2002-08 Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 359114

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one of the best Swedish writers (4/4 people found this helpful)

It's quite funny that Söderberg is best known around the world for this novel - in Sweden he is most known for his short stories, which are seen as the finest examples of the form written in that language. But he uses the same style in all his fiction - very controlled, no unnecessary words. And he writes very gently about the ironies of life, and gives some of the best descriptions of Stockholm to be found anywhere in fiction. Anything he wrote is well worth reading!

Unengaging (0/25 people found this helpful)

Summary sounded interesting, but the book itself was written in an unengaging way. True literature is often like that, though. (DNF)

A discovery. (21/24 people found this helpful)

A Swedish friend of mine recommended Söderberg to me, as the best Swedish writer of the fin-de-siecle. I have just finished reading it, I would enhance his opinion by saying Söderberg is one of the best fin-de-siecle writers, period. I will not go into depths here, I will only say that this short novel is written in diary form, and that the author displays an amazing control of form and style. It is exquisitely written. I was reading it at the same time as I was reading Kafka's "The Trial", and Kafka did not benefit from comparison.
Enter the dangerously rational mind of Doctor Glas.

*****

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