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SÖNYA KOVALÉVSKY
violently with her past life, and sacrifices riches and
position to live and work with Karl in a garret, it is
again Sönya as she pictured to herself what she would
have been had she had the good luck of such a choice.
I do not doubt that if she had written the scene
in which Karl’s happiness is depicted, it would have
been stronger, and have received a more personal and
warmer coloring than is now the case.
Alice’s dreams about the People’s Palace at
Herr-hamra, and about the great Labor Association; her
remark, " How different it would have all been had we
received the same education and had the same social
traditions, so as to form a band of comrades," describe
also Sonva’s dreams, and are her own identical words.
Sönya idealized the socialism of the future, and
often described, in glowing and eloquent words, a
happy commonwealth in which every one felt bound
to every other by identity of fate—a commonwealth
in which there were no opposing interests; where the
happiness of one would be the happiness of all, the
sufferings of one the sufferings of all.
After her death a friend of hers told me that once,
when her husband telegraphed to Sönya that he
believed one of his speculations had resulted in a vast
fortune, she had immediately planned a socialistic
community. It was her favorite dream, and she sought to
give expression to it in the second part of the drama,
" A Struggle for Happiness." Her dream was of both
personal happiness and the happiness of mankind in
general.
It is a pleasure to me to quote some sympathetic
words of Hermann Bang, in a short sketch which he
wrote of her whom we have lost, and published in a
Danish review. Speaking of the above-mentioned
drama, he says:
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