The cover page is adapted from Portrait of Hjalmar Söderberg, a painting completed in 1916 by Gerda Wallander. The cover and title pages feature the League Spartan and Sorts Mill Goudy typefaces created in 2014 and 2009 by The League of Moveable Type. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gerda_Wallanderwww.theleagueofmoveabletype.com/
Short Fiction
Chapters (19)
- Foreword 0:00
- The Chimney-Sweeper’s Wife 0:58
- Bloom 15:37
- The Fur Coat 34:58
- The Blue Anchor 43:10
- The Kiss 55:54
- The Dream of Eternity 1:00:42
- The Drizzle 1:08:05
- The Drawing in India Ink 1:13:23
- The Wages of Sin 1:16:19
- Communion 1:22:05
- The Clown 1:27:53
- Signy 1:34:37
- A Masterless Dog 1:39:53
- Vox Populi 1:46:24
- Margot 1:52:39
- The Burning City 2:06:40
- Archimedes’ Point 2:15:07
- The Parson’s Cows 2:20:53
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Hjalmar Söderberg was a Swedish author, working from the end of the nineteenth century up until the 1930s. While most famous now for his novel Doctor Glas—a favorite of Margaret Atwood’s—he also wrote other books, plays, and several collections of short stories.
His stories have several common themes: human desire and self-deception, the inability for people to ever truly understand each other, and bittersweet reminiscences of the past. A Stockholm resident for most of his life, his work draws heavy inspiration from the locale and its social structures.
This collection of short fiction was primarily translated by Charles Wharton Stork, who was a major promoter of Swedish literature in the interwar period.