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Original title
  
Den allvarsamma leken

Language
  
Swedish

Published in English
  
2001

Originally published
  
1912

Page count
  
422

Adaptations
  
A Serious Game (2016)

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3.9/5
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Translator
  
Eva Claeson

Publication date
  
1912

Pages
  
422

Author
  
Hjalmar Söderberg

Publisher
  
Albert Bonniers förlag

Country
  
Sweden

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Similar
  
Hjalmar Söderberg books, Other books

The Serious Game (Swedish: Den allvarsamma leken) is a 1912 novel by Hjalmar Söderberg. It tells the story of a man and a woman who fall in love when young, and remain in love, but stay separated and marry others.

Three Swedish films based on the book have been produced: Den allvarsamma leken (1945), Games of Love and Loneliness (1977) and A Serious Game (2016).

Reception

The book was reviewed in Publishers Weekly in 2002: "Söderberg manifests a keen painterly eye for settings: Arvid and Lydia's affair plays out against a backdrop of serene Stockholm parks, crowded newspaper offices full of workaholic journalists and the spare bedrooms where their trysts take place—and in each locale, the details offered are just enough to create a world of sensations. Feminist readers may take umbrage at the male domination of Arvid's milieu—women get little or no air time, although they would seem to determine the course of the novel. Söderberg creates psychological suspense worthy of Dostoyevski, as Arvid's internal moral conflicts achieve the gravity of physical pain."

References

The Serious Game Wikipedia