Gustaf af Geijerstam
1858–1909
Biography
Gustaf af Geijerstam was a Swedish novelist who wrote in the years around 1900, when Scandinavian fiction was turning towards realism and a close study of the mind. He was a friend of August Strindberg, and his books often took up marriage, the position of women and the inner lives of their characters. Many of them were translated into German during his lifetime.
Rainer Maria Rilke reviewed his novel Äktenskapets komedi (1898) favourably. Only two of his novels appeared in English, and both came out after his death: Boken om Lille-bror (1900) in 1921 as The Book about the Little Brother, and Kvinnokraft (1901) in 1922 as Woman Power. Other works include Erik Grane (1895), Karin Brandts dröm (1904) and Medusas hufvud, a novel of the decadent turn of the century.
The site holds Boken om lille-bror, the 1900 novel that is one of only two of his novels to have reached English. It gives English-speaking readers the most direct route into a writer who was widely read in German translation in his own day.
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Books
Boken om lille-bror: Ett äktenskaps roman
by Gustaf af Geijerstam
A husband sets down the story of his marriage, from first love through the birth of their children, as the book his youngest son, Little Brother, once asked him to write. Gustaf af Geijerstam's novel of 1900 is about happiness, loss and how love changes as the years go by.
Summary written by Claude Opus 5.5.