It has been published in more than thirty Swedish editions and translated to at least fourteen different languages. The Serious Game is now acknowledged as a classic in Swedish literature and has been called "The only romance novel of any worth in Swedish literature". On the whole the best that is now written in Sweden", while critic Fredrik Böök in Svenska Dagbladet was very negative. Bo Bergman in Dagens Nyheter wrote: "It is an exquisit pleasure to read this clean and unadorned prose. The novel received mixed reviews on its publication. Söderberg eventually picked up the subject again in 1912, and the novel was written in summer and autumn 1912 and published in November. In 1908 he began writing a novel on the subject, but it was unfinished. He first used the subject in the play Gertrud in 1906. The novel was inspired by Maria von Platen, a woman that Söderberg had a love affair with some years earlier. Trapped inside marriages of convenience, they struggle in later years to rekindle the promise of their romance with bitter and tragic results.
Lydia, however, has other suitors, and Arvid is frightened of being tied down by his emotions. Arvid, an ambitious and well-educated young man, meets Lydia, the daughter of a landscape painter, during an idyllic summer vacation and falls in love. Sweden at the turn of the previous century. Three Swedish films based on the book have been produced: Den allvarsamma leken (1945), Games of Love and Loneliness (1977) and A Serious Game (2016). It tells the story of a man and a woman who fall in love when young, and remain in love, but stay separated and marry others. The Serious Game ( Swedish: Den allvarsamma leken) is a 1912 novel by Hjalmar Söderberg.
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