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Introduction.
Gustav av Geijerstam was born Jan. 5, 1858, in Västmanland,
Sweden. After he had graduated from college he
studied for a few years at the University of Uppsala but
soon devoted his whole time to authorship. During the
years 1884—1893 he was engaged in newspaper work in
Stockholm, and from 1897—1902 he was employed as literary
secretary of Gernandt’s Publishing Company. He died
March 6, 1909.
As early as 1882 he published a collection of short stories,
Gråkallt, followed, in 1883, by another collection which he
called Småmynt. His other works during the first decade
of his authorship are: Erik Grane (1885), Pastor Hallin
(1887), Tills vidare (1887), Fattigt folk I (1884), II (1889),
Kronofogdens berättelser (1890), Stockholmsnoveller (1892),
and a collection of verse, Satirer och Drömmar (1892). He
also wrote the following dramas: Svärfar (1888), Aldrig i
livet (1890), Per Olsson och hans käring (1894), Lars
Anders och Jan Anders (1894), Förbrytare (1894), Sascha
(1896) and Stiliga Augusta (1900).
In all the above mentioned works Geijerstam shows himself
a faithful adherent of the realistic movement in Swedish
literature. This movement was charactertzed by a general
dissatisfaction with the existing order of things and its
champions developed a remarkably active and aggressive zeal
for reform. Nothing daunted them. They were pessimists
in their ruthless criticism of their own time, but optimists
when they dreamed of the new order of things which was
to be established on the ruins of the old. Nearly everything
in state, church, and society was examined by them
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