The heart's concern (Hjärtats oro) - Hjalmar Söderberg

Art. no. 216584037 24 Apr 2025

Hjärtats oro (1909) is a book of thoughts by Hjalmar Söderberg that combines essayistic reflections with diary entries. It explores themes such as Christianity, socialism and women's suffrage, and provides an insight into the author's personal reflections during a late summer in Dragör, Denmark.

In Hjärtats oro, Söderberg appears unmasked and speaks directly to the reader. The book is a mosaic of sentences and confessions, jokes and seriousness, worries of the mind and heart. The outer framework includes a quiet description of how the narrator spends a late summer in Dragör, outside Copenhagen, to complete his novel Den allvarsamma leken. The book consists mainly of musings on all sorts of subjects, mainly Christianity, socialism and women's suffrage.