Röda rummet (or The Red Room) is a novel written by August Strindberg. Released in 1879, it serves as a satire of Stockholm's society and tells of a bureaucrat becoming an author.
Characters[]
- Arvid Falk
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Publisher's summary[]
On the 100th anniversary of August Strindberg's death. - His resounding first novel, a new translation.
"The monstrous Strindberg. This rage, these pages won in a fistfight," Franz Kafka praised the satirical power of the Swedish classic. With biting humor, in "The Red Room," he draws a panopticon of amusing caricatures and exposes the acquisitiveness, the need for recognition, and the opportunism of a thoroughly deceitful society.
Stockholm, circa 1870: Arvid Falk, a trusting young man, ends his perceived useless civil service career. As a journalist and writer, he now wants to serve truth and progress. But wherever the seeker of meaning turns, he encounters arrogance and manipulation: A publisher buys his success with critics, bigoted middle-class women demand compliant handouts, and newspapers, regardless of their persuasion, are subservient to the powerful. Arvid meets like-minded people in an artists' circle that meets in the "Red Room" of a famous restaurant. But here, noble intentions are all too often succumbed to rumbling stomachs.
August Strindberg depicts the disillusionment of an idealist. His keen powers of observation and ironic exaggeration point far beyond the era.
See also[]
| Title | Author | Release date | Significance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Bleak House | Charles Dickens | 1852-1853 | A novel with a similarly satirical tone |
| Clelie | Madeleine de Scudéry | 1654-1661 | A somewhat similar roman a clef |
| Glenarvon | Caroline Lamb | 1816 | A somewhat similar roman a clef |
| The Bell Jar | Sylvia Plath | 1963 | A somewhat similar roman a clef |
| On the Road | Jack Kerouac | 1957 | A somewhat similar roman a clef |
| Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas | Hunter S. Thompson | 1971 | A somewhat similar roman a clef |
Sources[]
- Wikipedia
- Goodreads