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Doctor Glas: A Novel

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Doctor Glas: A Novel

A masterpiece of enduring power,Â Doctor GlasÂ confronts a chilling moral quandary with gripping intensity.Â With an introduction by Margaret Atwood.

Stark, brooding, and enormously controversial when first published in 1905, this astonishing novel juxtaposes impressions of fin-de-siÃ¨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 ministerâ€™s beautiful wife complains of her husbandâ€™s oppressive sexual attentions, Doctor Glas finds himself contemplating murder.Â

"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 EugÃ©nie Grandet and Henry James's Washington Square, this time conjured up by a sensibility akin to Strindberg's and Ingmar Bergman'sâ€”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."Â â€”Susan Sontag
Country USA
Brand Anchor
Manufacturer Anchor
Binding Paperback
Color Black
ReleaseDate 2002-08-13
UnitCount 1
EANs 9780385722674

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