About “The Red Room”
The Red Room is a 1879 novel by August Strindberg, considered the first modern Swedish novel. It satirizes Stockholm society and draws from Strindberg’s personal experiences of poverty while writing the book between February and November 1879. Though it received mixed reviews in Sweden, it was highly praised in Denmark, where Strindberg was celebrated as a genius. The novel helped establish his fame across Scandinavia. Literary critic Edvard Brandes noted that it "makes the reader want to join the fight against hypocrisy and reaction." (Summary adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.)
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- 1879
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Some summaries adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.