4. A criticism of criticism: Georg Nordensvan and Mikael Lybeck

As a conclusion to the discussion regarding the modes of literary impressionism in Swedish prose, I will turn back to the results stemming from my critical survey of the use of the term in the Finland-Swedish press, presented in the preceding chapter of this study. By subjecting Georg Nordensvan’s collection of short stories Skuggspel. Tidsbilder and Mikael Lybeck’s novels Den starkare and Allas vår Margit to closer scrutiny, I wish to evaluate the appropriateness of the contemporary critics’.