gotischen Zimmer

The Red Room shocked Swedish society. Its sequel is nastier. Twenty years have passed, and the idealistic young radicals of Strindberg's earlier masterpiece have grown into something darker: compromised, exhausted, still raging against a machine that absorbed them instead of falling to their critiques. The Gothic Room is a bitter homecoming to the same satirical milieu, where old acquaintances surface with new debts, new hypocrisies, and the same rot beneath Stockholm's progressive surface. Strindberg's wit has darkened into something more corrosive, and his gaze on Swedish society at century's end cuts like a scalpel. This is the novel for anyone who wanted to know what happens after the revolution eats its own children.