1. Introduction: the impressionist as a literary character

In an attempt to complete the discussion of the writers’ awareness of impressionism, we will in this last section turn to the representation of the impressionist as a literary character in Swedish fiction. I will examine a body of four little-known texts written at the close of the nineteenth century, casting the impressionist in the role of protagonist or minor character: Gustaf af Geijerstam’s tale Utan pängar (Moneyless) from the collection Fattigt folk (Poor People), II, 1889 (Geijerstam .