During a steamboat trip between Stockholm and Lidkoping, a sergeant named Albert falls in love with the glazier's daughter Sara Videbeck. But Sara insists that they live in an egalitarian marriage without a formal marriage ceremony and without shared property (today known as living apart together). Sara asks at the end of the book: Gar allt detta an, Albert? (Is all this acceptable, Albert?) The answer is: Det gar an (It is acceptable). The novel is primarily an attack on lifelong marriage as an institution and the inability of women to become financially independent. The book's social...
During a steamboat trip between Stockholm and Lidkoping, a sergeant named Albert falls in love with the glazier's daughter Sara Videbeck. But Sara ins...