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"The Red Room" by August Strindberg

The "novel with a key" is a literature work that presents real people or events disguised as fiction. The "key" is the relationship between the real and the fiction. 30.___________ works often use satire and humour to comment 31.___________ politics, scandals, and controversial figures.

"The Red Room", a novel by Swedish author August Strindberg, is a satire of Stockholm society similar in its biting criticism 32.___________ the works of English writer Charles Dickens. The book, considered the first modern Swedish novel in style and content, introduces Arvid Falk, who is a naive idealist.

Falk is a young civil servant when we first meet him. He is so frustrated by bureaucratic 33.___________ tape of his job that he 34.___________ it up to become a journalist and author. He meets characters from theatre, politics, and business, drawn from real-life figures from Stockholm's elite — and, disheartened, he soon realises that Swedish society is full 35.___________ deceit and corruption.

The title of the novel refers to a room in a Stockholm restaurant where bohemians gather. Here, Falk 36.___________ solace with artists and writers to reflect on the vicissitudes of life. The comic descriptions of the characters he encounters convey a sense of the tensions between bohemian and bourgeois life in Stockholm.

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