Den allvarsamma leken by hjalmar söderberg

Examinating typi¬cal logocentric binarisms the essay will show that the notion of true love is constituting a term in an oppositional relation with, in this specific case, the marriage sanctioned by society. With Derrida’s conception of deconstruction, the analysis will reveal the constructedness of the true love in Söderbergs novel.

In this essay, I will examine this notion of love as a prediscursive value, by means pro¬vided by foremost poststructuralist theory. The story about Arvid Stjärnblom and Lydia Stille and their extramarital love is marked by timeless universality. 2007 (Svenska) Självständigt arbete på avancerad nivå (magisterexamen), 10 poäng / 15 hp Studentuppsats Abstract ĭen allvarsamma leken (1912) by Hjalmar Söderberg has been regarded as one of the greatest love novels of Swedish literature.