Abstract
In earlier notes in these pages the author has considered how literary scenes of food vending and dining could become vehicles for social criticism. In this article, he provides a translation of a scene from August Strindberg's short story ‘Needs must’ (‘Måste’) which was published in 1884 as part of a collection of short stories, Getting Married (Giftas). In the scene a solitary diner, a schoolmaster, orders crayfish, not for the first time.
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