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Doktor Glas är en roman i dagboksform av den svenske författaren Hjalmar Söderberg, 1869 - 1941.Får man döda någon för att hjälpa någon annan? Det är den centrala frågan, som Hjalmar Söderberg ställde.Boken kom ut 1905 väckte stor uppståndelse.

The haunting tale of Doctor Glas takes place in Stockholm during the closing years of the 1800s. But when the wife takes a lover, and Doctor Glas becomes emotionally attached to her, an intolerable situation develops.

A masterpiece of enduring power, Doctor Glas confronts a chilling moral quandary with gripping intensity. With an introduction by Margaret Atwood.Stark, brooding, and enormously controversial when first published in 1905, this astonishing novel juxtaposes impressions of fin-de-siècle 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 minister’s beautiful wife complains of her husband’s oppressive sexual attentions, Doctor Glas finds himself contemplating murder. "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 Eugénie 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. The retrieval of Doctor Glas in English is a bracing gift to hungry readers." —Susan Sontag