Doctor Glas
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The haunting tale of Doctor Glas takes place in Stockholm during the closing years of the 1800s.The doctor, a troubled and compassionate man, relates the strange story of the Reverend Gregorius and his pretty wife. Gregorius, an elderly and offensive pastor, has endangered her physical and mental health. She consults Doctor Glas, who for the first time violates the ethics of his profession and uses a highly unorthodox method of helping her. But when the wife takes a lover, and Doctor Glas becomes emotionally attached to her, an intolerable situation develops. The uxorious pastor dies, poisoned. The aftermath of his death and the doctor's unforeseen reactions to it bring the story to a chilling, horrifying close.Originally published in 1905, Doctor Glas is a novel of extraordinary immediacy and frankness. Its concerns -sexual incompatibility, abortion, euthanasia -together with its psychological insights, make it a remarkably modern work.
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Oh in the name of— sadness, suffering and truth! Where have you been? Where have I not read you? My Cathy whom I actually love and adore, an extinguished fire that I trapped and gave no warmth!
So yea I really loved this book! This is my jam I think, it feels a bit amateurish or naive in the best way. It asked for things and I did not need to beg for them, it did more than I hoped. The ending was okay, but I don't care. The vibes! The vibes!!! This is like a depressed teen idolising some shadow of a dream!! I love the themes, the discussion of death in various ways, I love how they are the highlights and not something else. The colours and the scenaries the protagonist paints! All this journey he despises, it is art and gosh is his understanding of art so odd.
I grabbed a bunch of chilli pepper flakes and then shoved them on my meal to compliment this spice. I went on a walk and dreamt of impossible imagery and went beyond pain in my mind. I am so sad over this depressed twink doctor, why is life like this to him?? :(( If he was gay I would time travel and become fictional.Okay maybe I should stop writing these questionable things, but omg what a book :(( I will cry a river. You get me, you understand me. Maybe I should read some more morbid books like Anna Karerina, Nausea, something from Schopenhauer or something like that. Mood.
Edit on April 8th: I would like to mention that this discusses abortion and is considered antinatalist in parts. This is a book which highlighted those concepts and caused controversy in 1905.
