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**bypeTeenehalT** · 10-30-2008, 10:02 PM

A good review, on the Asylum - John Self's Shelves website, the start of which is visible here.

He makes a good point about expensive editions. I bought my copy at the main railway station in Stockholm in a dirt-cheap Swedish paperback edition. Hjalmar S?derberg is, after all, a national institution, alongside Strindberg and Bergman. It seems an awful pity that it has not appeared in paperback in English, as this condemns what is, after all, an obscure writer for most British readers to continued obscurity.

John Self says:

I saw Hjalmar S?derberg’s novel Doctor Glas on display as a staff recommendation in a provincial bookstore - the sort of shop where otherwise it’s wall-to-wall 3-for-2s - and I was so surprised that I bought it, just to encourage them. Here in the UK, it remains available only in hardback, which seems a shame; then again, as it’s been reprinted five times in five years in this pricey format, the publishers (the redoubtable Harvill) must know what they’re doing. I wonder...

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bypeTeenehalT Join Date Oct 2005 Posts 494 Senior Member	A good review, on the Asylum - John Self's Shelves website, the start of which is visible here. He makes a good point about expensive editions. I bought my copy at the main railway station in Stockholm in a dirt-cheap Swedish paperback edition. Hjalmar S?derberg is, after all, a national institution, alongside Strindberg and Bergman. It seems an awful pity that it has not appeared in paperback in English, as this condemns what is, after all, an obscure writer for most British readers to continued obscurity. John Self says: I saw Hjalmar S?derberg’s novel Doctor Glas on display as a staff recommendation in a provincial bookstore - the sort of shop where otherwise it’s wall-to-wall 3-for-2s - and I was so surprised that I bought it, just to encourage them. Here in the UK, it remains available only in hardback, which seems a shame; then again, as it’s been reprinted five times in five years in this pricey format, the publishers (the redoubtable Harvill) must know what they’re doing. I wonder...
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