The Serious Game
Hjalmar Soderberg · 1912
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Soderberg's masterful short story collection and his novel The Serious Game trace the emotional lives of Stockholm's bourgeoisie with devastating precision and gentle irony. His exploration of unfulfilled love, regret, and the passage of time established a melancholy tone that permeates much of Swedish literature. Soderberg's Stockholm — elegant, lonely, and tinged with sadness — remains the literary city that many Swedes recognize as their own.
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