Doctor Glas
Hjalmar Soderberg · 1905
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Soderberg's short, intense novel about a Stockholm doctor who contemplates murdering a patient's repulsive husband is a masterpiece of psychological fiction that scandalized Sweden on publication. Its frank treatment of desire, euthanasia, and moral relativism was decades ahead of its time. The novel captures the modernist crisis of values in Swedish society and established the tradition of unflinching psychological honesty in Swedish literature.
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