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Martin Birck’s Youth

by Hjalmar Söderberg

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Hjalmar Soderberg drew on his own Stockholm boyhood for this melancholy portrait of a sensitive young man coming of age at the close of the nineteenth century. In quiet, impressionistic scenes the novel follows Martin Birck from a devout childhood through school, the slow loss of his faith, a dull clerk's post, and a tender but shadowed love affair. Little happens in the way of plot; Soderberg's art lies in mood, in the ache of passing time, and in Martin's clear-eyed disenchantment with the promises of religion and ambition. First published in 1901, it stands among the finest examples of Swedish fin-de-siecle prose.

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Hjalmar Söderberg

Hjalmar Soderberg (1869-1941) was a Swedish novelist, short-story writer, playwright, and journalist, prized as one of his country's finest stylists. Working in a spare, ironic, melancholy manner, he is best known for the novels Doctor Glas and The Serious Game and for his sharply observed Stockholm sketches.

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First published
1901
Reading time
About 3 hours
Pages
125
Language
English
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