Fans of well-honed satire will enjoy The Red Room, August Strindberg's no-holds-barred send-up of the pretensions of Swedish high society in the late nineteenth century. Earnest government worker Arvid Falk leaves his old life behind and tries to...
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Fans of well-honed satire will enjoy The Red Room, August Strindberg's no-holds-barred send-up of the pretensions of Swedish high society in the late nineteenth century. Earnest government worker Arvid Falk leaves his old life behind and tries to make a splash as a writer, but as he begins to spend more time with various elite and exclusive cliques, he becomes all the more disillusioned
Title; Contents; Chapter I - A Bird's-Eye View of Stockholm; Chapter II - Between Brothers; Chapter III - The Artists' Colony; Chapter IV - Master and Dogs; Chapter V - At the Publisher's; Chapter VI - The Red Room; Chapter VII - The Imitation of Christ; Chapter VIII - Poor Mother Country; Chapter IX - Bills of Exchange; Chapter X - The Newspaper Syndicate ""Grey Bonnet""; Chapter XI - Happy People; Chapter XII - Marine Insurance Society ""Triton""; Chapter XIII - Divine Ordinance; Chapter XIV - Absinth; Chapter XV - The Theatrical Company ""Phoenix""; Chapter XVI - In the White Mountains
Chapter XVII - NaturaChapter XVIII - Nihilism; Chapter XIX - From Churchyard to Public-House; Chapter XX - On the Altar; Chapter XXI - A Soul Overboard; Chapter XXII - Hard Times; Chapter XXIII - Audiences; Chapter XXIV - On Sweden; Chapter XXV - Checkmate; Chapter XXVI - Correspondence; Chapter XXVII - Recovery; Chapter XXVIII - From Beyond the Grave; Chapter XXIX - Revue; Chapter XXX - Epilogue; Endnotes
