Catalog
Historietter
by Hjalmar Söderberg
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Söderberg's celebrated collection gathers short prose pieces set mostly in turn-of-the-century Stockholm: a lamplit city of cafés, rented rooms, autumn streets and restless young men and women. In a few pages each, he sketches love affairs that curdle, small cruelties, sudden deaths, fables and dreams, always with the cool irony and melancholy tenderness that made his reputation. The tales are miniature in scale yet unsettlingly large in implication, musing on chance, loneliness and the indifference of the world. Perfect for reading in snatches on a commute or before sleep, and among the most beautiful Swedish prose ever written.
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