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the complete review - fiction

Gregorius

by
Bengt Ohlsson

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Why we haven't reviewed it yet:
Haven't gotten our hands on a copy


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  From the Reviews:

• "It's both a riveting book on its own merits and an astonishing gloss on an earlier masterpiece. (...) Gregorius is a full, touching and artful reimagining of its ungainly hero. It's also an unsettling but thoroughly engaging exploration of the seedier sides of human nature, and of the power men and women wield over each other in their most intimate relationships. No wonder it won a prize." - Margaret Atwood, The Guardian
  
  
• "Ohlsson movingly depicts the plight of a man aware he is physically abhorrent to the woman he loves but unable either to confront this or to deny himself the rights he presumes" - Paul Binding, Independent on Sunday
  
  
• "Gregorius, in Silvester Mazzarella’s translation, succeeds superbly, reprising in depth and detail the painful events of the hot Stockholm summer that set these troubled men on their collision course." - Alison McCulloch, The New York Times Book Review
  
  
• "Through the medium of the first-person narrative, even the most dubious characters can be made to seem sympathetic, but Ohlsson succeeds only partially. His novel, although undoubtedly accomplished, is a bit of an oddity -- a work whose characters are all so unappealing, that one looks forward to the end." - Christina Koning, The Times

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Links:

• BookReflections (Swedish)
• dagensbok (Swedish)
• The Guardian
• Kirkus Reviews
• The Modern Novel

• Hjalmar Söderberg's Doctor Glas
• Dannie Abse's The Strange Case of Dr. Simmonds and Dr. Glas
• See Index of Scandinavian literature

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About the Author:

       Swedish author Bengt Ohlsson was born in 1963.

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