Strindberg

Originally published in paperback in 1965, this is an introduction to Strindberg's life and work.

Brita M. E. Mortensen (Author), Brian W. Downs (Author)

9780521092609, Cambridge University Press

Paperback / softback, published 2 January 1965

248 pages
19.8 x 12.9 x 1.3 cm, 0.25 kg

Originally published in 1949, and reprinted as a paperback in 1965, this is an introduction to Strindberg's life and work. In the biographical chapters, Professor Downs reveals Strindberg's life of spiritual violence and tragedy and shows how the search to know and to become himself, to recognise in his own life the working of the supernatural, led him to the edge of madness and attempted suicide. Innumerable attempts to bend the supernatural to his will led to three disastrous marriages and in the end to a bitter solitude of suffering. In the second half, Miss Mortensen deals with the plays, the novels and the short stories, showing their impact on Swedish audiences and readers and estimating their place in European literature. The final two chapters deal with the directly autobiographical works, and Strindberg's poetry, criticism and correspondence.

Strindberg in 1905
Preface
List of principal works
1. The life 1849–1872
2. The life 1872–1891
3. The life 1891–1897
4. The life 1897–1912
5. The plays
6. The novels
7. The short stories
8. The autobiographical writings
9. Miscellaneous works
Conclusion
Select bibliography
Index.

Subject Areas: Educational: English language & literacy [YQC]