In 2010, a somewhat dull soft cover book was put out in Swedish, flaunting the same title as the bestselling pioneer novel of the Nordic modern breakthrough, published 131 years earlier by August Strindberg: Röda rummet (The Red Room). The cover of the 2010 piece was soberly unadorned, colored in a nondescript greyish-yellow-white, and showing nothing but the title and the name of the author – Pär Thörn – in neutral capital letters. However, there was also a signal deviation from the title of the original, brought forth by the insertion of a parenthesis containing a descriptive adjective, ”Alfabetisk” (alphabetical)....