Martin Birck's youth : a novel / Hjalmar Söderberg ; translated from the Swedish by Tom Ellett.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Söderberg, Hjalmar, 1869-1941.

Contributor:

Ellett, Tom.

Edward Zeigler Davis Fund.

Series:

Flower, Sydney Blanshard, 1867- Series B ; Course of practical psychic instruction. no. 33.

Norvick Press series B ; no. 33

Standardized Title:

Martin Bircks ungdom. English

Language:

English

Swedish

Subjects (All):

Swedish fiction.

Swedish fiction--Translations into English.

Genre:

Translations.

Fiction.

Physical Description:

150 pages ; 20 cm.

Place of Publication:

Norwich, England : Norvik Press, University of East Anglia, [2004]

Summary:

"Hjalmar Soderberg's partly autobiographical second novel was originally published in 1901, and traces the development of the title character from a seemingly idyllic Stockholm childhood to maturity as a thirty-year-old man, an introspective outsider, critical of society, constantly searching for the truth but going through a gradual process of disillusionment. He dreams of being a poet, but is too melancholic to break free from his modest bureaucratic career, and slowly drifts towards nihilism and aestheticism." "Martin Birck's Youth is a book rich in fin-de-siecle themes: melancholy, eroticism and decadence abound. The Stockholm depicted here is a haunting city of shadows and snowstorms, suppressed passion and loneliness. The conflict between dreams and reality which occurs in so many novels of the period is central to the novel."--BOOK JACKET.

Notes:

Originally published: Stockholm : A. Bonnier, 1901.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Edward Zeigler Davis Fund.

ISBN:

1870041577

9781870041577

OCLC:

57709684