Doctor Glas. Novelettes

"Doctor Glas" is the most famous and the most scandalous novel by Söderberg, translated into more than 30 languages. Reading the diary of a Stockholm doctor, philosopher, and connoisseur of beauty, we see how sympathy for a young patient gradually turns into obsession—and drives the hero to an act far removed from the canon of medical duty. The novel contains direct references to “Crime and Punishment,” and what brings them together isn’t only the Nietzschean intonations of the title character, but also the stirring, dark, claustrophobic atmosphere of a northern city.

“The Little Novels” is a collection of short miniatures differing in style and plot, yet equally engaging and mysterious, infused with the spirit of northern modernism. In Russian, these are published in full for the very first time.

Hjalmar Söderberg is a classic of Swedish literature, standing alongside August Strindberg and Selma Lagerlöf, though—unfortunately—less known in Russia. “The Swedish Dostoevsky.”