About the book: 2010 / The combination of serious moral and social issues with the traditional form of a comic novel allowed the founder of realism in Swedish literature, A. Strindberg, to draw a fairly expressive panorama of everyday life and give a satire on bourgeois morals, recreate the conflict between the forces of nature and bourgeois civilization. Another conflict of the novel develops between the hero of the novel - the hired worker Carlson, a stranger and wanderer, an active and enterprising man, similar to Hamsunov's tramps - and the owners and ordinary people who, despite the contradictory character of the hero, see in him only a rogue.