The Red Room (Strindberg)

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The Red Room (Röda rummet) is a Swedish novel by August Strindberg, written in 1879.

A young idealistic civil servant, Arvid Falk, leaves the drudgery of bureaucracy to become a journalist and author. In every social sphere he explores (politics, publishing, theatre, philanthropy, and business), he finds more hypocrisy and corruption than he thought possible. He takes refuge with a group of bohemians, who meet in a red dining room in the Berns Salonger to discuss these matters. The actual room exists today.