![]() Söderberg, Hjalmar Erik Fredrik - ▪ Swedish author born, June/July 2, 1869, Stockholm, Sweden died Oct. But the lover marries someone else for money, and in the end Helga and Glas are both lonelier than before, as well as forever separated by Glas's monstrous crime. ![]() He then uses his position as their family doctor to murder the clergyman, with the idea that Helga, with whom Glas is infatuated, will now be free to marry her lover. The relatively young and aesthetically sensitive Glas is struck by the ugliness of having an old man impose his love on a young wife who, as it turns out, has fallen in love with someone else, and Glas demonizes the pastor, whom he describes as extremely ugly in both body and spirit. Glas is approached by Helga Gregorius, the second and much younger wife of a local clergyman, who seeks his aid in deflecting the amorous advances of her 57-year-old husband. Its title character and diarist is a 30-year-old Stockholm physician who confesses to being completely unacquainted with women a youthful love interest who could have become the love of his life died in a swimming accident shortly after he met her. ![]() Soderberg's best book is the diary novel Doktor Glas (1905 tr. ![]()
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