Bo Bergman

Bergman was born and died in Stockholm, where he spent his entire working life as a postal official, retiring in 1933.

In addition to his postal duties, Bergman also worked as a literary critic for Ord och Bild from 1900 until 1904.

Bergman's early poetry is typically decadent and disillusioned, being informed by a determinist view of a changing world in which all value systems and all scientific and metaphysical processes of understanding the universe are meaningless.

Marionetterna, which translates as The Marionettes, supposes that the destinies of men are in the hands of a bearded old man in control of their every move.

Like Söderberg, Bergman's worldview gave way to a militant brand of humanism in his later works, a reaction against the growing threat of Nazism.