The red room

August Strindbury

Translated by Mustafa Qaoud

Publisher: Dar Mazer for Printing and Publishing / Sweden

The novel (The Red Room) was published in 1879 to keep pace with a period of important transformations in Swedish society and at the world level, as it depicted the difficult period of labor in the transition towards a society of parliamentary representation and democratic life, and was exposed to multi-faceted inhibiting factors. Life progresses for the better. And pictures that make each of its chapters a self-contained play. The details of the novel document life and transformations through dialogues between the most important characters of his novel: Arvid Falk, the journalist and writer in the novel, Doctor Buri, the plastic artist Celine, the playwright Rehanelm, the painter and sculptor Londal, the philosophers Ogberi and Ole Montanos, and these are the friends who used to meet in the red room in Stockholm