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**bypeTeenehalT** · 03-09-2009, 04:58 AM

Welcome, HDW, I may have met you in a previous life. I too thought the avatar thing a little odd, but as some people at university called me "Witold", I have adopted the rather sallow-gaunt-profiled Gombrowicz as mine.

I bought "Doktor Glas" in Swedish in the cheapest of cheap paperbacks last summer in the bookshop on Stockholm railway station, but haven't read it yet. I feel that not having read at least a couple of books by S?derberg is a failure for someone who, like myself, studied Swedish at university. Not least because when I left Sweden in 1989, someone gave me the Bure Holmb?ck biography as a leaving present, also, sadly unread twenty years later!

"Doktor Glas" is only about 180 pages long; I shall add it to the pile of things I should read. Is there going to be a reprint, or new English translation of the novel? Because Norvik publishes a couple of other S?derberg books in English translation, as I mentioned in a previous entry. The English Wikipedia even has an entry for the book:

Doctor Glas - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

But maybe the entry is also a bit of a spoiler. Is the 2002 Anchor Books version, introduced by Margaret Atwood, this same Paul Britten Austin translation, or a newer one?

03-09-2009, 04:58 AM	#8
bypeTeenehalT Join Date Oct 2005 Posts 494 Senior Member	Welcome, HDW, I may have met you in a previous life. I too thought the avatar thing a little odd, but as some people at university called me "Witold", I have adopted the rather sallow-gaunt-profiled Gombrowicz as mine. I bought "Doktor Glas" in Swedish in the cheapest of cheap paperbacks last summer in the bookshop on Stockholm railway station, but haven't read it yet. I feel that not having read at least a couple of books by S?derberg is a failure for someone who, like myself, studied Swedish at university. Not least because when I left Sweden in 1989, someone gave me the Bure Holmb?ck biography as a leaving present, also, sadly unread twenty years later! "Doktor Glas" is only about 180 pages long; I shall add it to the pile of things I should read. Is there going to be a reprint, or new English translation of the novel? Because Norvik publishes a couple of other S?derberg books in English translation, as I mentioned in a previous entry. The English Wikipedia even has an entry for the book: Doctor Glas - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia But maybe the entry is also a bit of a spoiler. Is the 2002 Anchor Books version, introduced by Margaret Atwood, this same Paul Britten Austin translation, or a newer one?
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