Doktor Glas.

Söderberg (Hjalmar)

Published by Albert Bonniers, 1905

About this Item

FIRST EDITION, a couple of light pencil marks, pp. [1v], 253, [2], foolscap 8vo, contemporary half calf with marbled boards, the backstrip lettered in gilt with three raised bands, extremities a little rubbed, marbling to edges with that to fore-and tail edges a little faint, patterned endpapers, good. A scarce first edition of the Swedish author's most important work, written in the form of a diary recording the eponymous physician's descent into despair - and within the larger themes of sex and death, dealing with abortion, euthanasia, adultery and suicide (all apt to cause the sort of scandal that the book provoked). The nature of the journal form allows for a subtle handling of the narrator's ennui and the book's complex moral issues, and the novel is both very much of its time in terms of the literary and philosophical influences on the narrative's presentation as well as predicting several of the tropes and preoccupations that would become staples of modernist practice. The first English edition appeared in 1963 with an introduction by William Sansom - the most recent edition replaced this with one by Margaret Atwood. Seller Inventory # 59724

Bibliographic Details

Title: Doktor Glas.

Publisher: Albert Bonniers

Publication Date: 1905