Name Gustaf Geijerstam Role Novelist | Parents Gosta af Geijerstam | |
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Died March 6, 1909, Stockholm, Sweden Children Sten Gustaf af Geijerstam, Gosta af Geijerstam Books Scandinavian Short Stories Grandchildren Gustaf Emanuel af Geijerstam, Karl af Geijerstam Similar People Per Hallstrom, Verner von Heidenstam, August Strindberg, Fredrika Bremer, Selma Lagerlof | ||
Gustaf af Geijerstam (1858–1909) was a Swedish novelist. He was a friend of August Strindberg's. Many of his works were translated into German during his lifetime, and one, Äktenskapets komedi (1898), was reviewed favorable by Rainer Maria Rilke, who remarked that Geijerstam was an author "one must follow attentively from book to book." Only two of his novels were translated into English: Boken om Lille-bror (1900), as "the Book about the Little Brother" in 1921, and Kvinnokraft (1901), as "Woman Power" in 1922. Other works include Erik Grane (1895), Karin Brandts dröm (1904) and Medusas hufvud (1905).
Debate
In 1885 a Bishop had argued that God's order required that women were not emancipated. Geijerstam then argued that men could only aspire to one day have the purity of women because they were fundamentally different and this was the reason for prostitution and other immorality. Minna Canth objected strongly to this argument as it meant that men could defend their poor morals by reference to their implicit shortcomings, whereas any women involved in prostitution would lack the same defence.