Agnetha Pleyel is a well-known figure in the cultural life of Scandinavia: author of plays and novels, poet, literary prize winner, professor of drama, literary critic, journalist. Her books have been translated into 20 languages. The main character of the story “Surviving Winter in Stockholm” (1997) is going through a painful divorce from her husband and, in order to better understand and survive what is happening, begins to keep a diary. Since the heroine is a literary scholar, ideas from world culture are organically woven into her everyday life and thoughts about life. Records about the problems that concern the heroine, about her relationships with men, memories are filled with echoes of psychoanalysis and obvious or hidden allusions.