Sweden at the turn of the previous century. Arvid, an ambitious and well-educated young man, meets Lydia, the daughter of a landscape painter, during an idyllic summer vacation and falls in love. Lydia, however, has other suitors, and Astrid is frightened of being tied down by his emotions. Trapped inside loveless marriages of convenience, they struggle in later years to rekindle the promise of their romance with bitter and tragic results.
Hjalmar Soderberg, born in Stockholm, in 1869, was one Scandinavia's leading modernist writers. The Serious Game is Sweden's most...
Sweden at the turn of the previous century. Arvid, an ambitious and well-educated young man, meets Lydia, the daughter of a landscape painter, duri...
Hjalmar Soderberg (1869-1941) es considerate como un bon stilista de su epocha. Ille ha scribite poemas, novellas, romanes, recensiones etc. Su obras es traducite a circa 14 linguas e nunc tamben a interlingua."Den allvarsamma leken" (Le joco seriose) esseva publicate in 1912 e es ancora un obra satis popular. Le roman describe un parte del vita de un homine in le initio del vintesime seculo. Le personage principal experientiava un amor de juventute con un puera innocente. Post un maritage infelice con un altere femina ille per hasardo la reincontra. Le puera innocente tamben ha experientiate...
Hjalmar Soderberg (1869-1941) es considerate como un bon stilista de su epocha. Ille ha scribite poemas, novellas, romanes, recensiones etc. Su obras ...
The twenty-six stories included in this volume are taut, economical in structure, precisely observed and laced with irony. They include some of his most popular and well known stories: A Dog without a Master, a meditation upon a godless existence, The Fur Coat, in which a borrowed garment reveals an adulterous secret, and The Chinese, with its delicate depiction of loneliness and isolation. Shining through all the stories is SOderberg's clear-sighted affection for Stockholm, in all its moods - it is only too easy to see why SOderberg is regarded as one of the...
The twenty-six stories included in this volume are taut, economical in structure, precisely observed and laced with irony. They include some of his...
Ambiciózní mladík Arvid Stjärnblom se zamiluje do Lydie, dcery krajináře Stilleho. Nechce se ale vázat a není ani jediným Lydiiným nápadníkem. Po letech, kdy už jsou oba spoutáni konvenčním manželstvím, se pokusí navázat na svou někdejší lásku a osvobodit se od společenských pout. Ale zatímco Lydia odejde od rodiny, Arvid k takovému činu jen těžko hledá sílu. Časem si také uvědomí, že Lydiina potřeba lásky je větší, než tušil, a že totéž platí i pro její erotickou touhu. Román je prostoupen lyrikou, ale také kousavou ironií a pohledem na...
Ambiciózní mladík Arvid Stjärnblom se zamiluje do Lydie, dcery krajináře Stilleho. Nechce se ale vázat a není ani jediným Lydiiným nápadní...