A masterpiece of enduring power, Doctor Glas confronts a chilling moral quandary with gripping intensity.
The retrieval of Doctor Glas in English is a bracing gift to hungry readers.- --Susan Sontag. -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 Eugenie 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.
So when the minister\'s beautiful wife complains of her husband\'s oppressive sexual attentions, Doctor Glas finds himself contemplating murder.
Lonely and introspective, Doctor Glas has long felt an instinctive hostility toward the odious local minister.
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.
With an introduction by Margaret Atwood.
A masterpiece of enduring power, Doctor Glas confronts a chilling moral quandary with gripping intensity
