The Red Room

The Red Room is a true masterpiece of Swedish literature. And its author, August Strindberg, is the acknowledged literary master. 


The Red Room is the novel full of satire on Stockholm society with its hypocrisy and reaction. The novel tells about young civil servant Arvid Falk who leaves his bureaucratic work to become a journalist. With him a reader will explore the world of various social activities and will find the unexpected hypocrisy and corruption of politics, publishing, philanthropy and business. 


A wise reader will understand that The Red Room is a satire on not only Stockholm life, this novel is about eternal human social problems.


Outstanding literary mastery of August Strindberg brings The Red Room to the top of the literary Olympus and makes this novel absolutely must-read for every educated person.