AUGUST STRINDBERG

Swedish writer August Strinberg played a major role in introducing a more modernist sensibility into his native country's literature producing several major novels and plays that are still regarded as some of the most significant works of twentieth-century Swedish literature. The Road to Damascus is a dramatic trilogy that broke new ground in st...

August Strindberg's first literary productions were warmly received, and would have aroused lasting enthusiasm and admiration had the young author's prolific pen been less aggressive, in this, for his country, a totally new style of novel. His intrepid sarcasm which emanated from a physical disability, known only to a few of his most intimate fr...

The collection of plays contained in this volume is unusually representative, giving what might be called a cross-section of Strindberg's development as a dramatist from his naturalistic revolt in the middle eighties, to his final arrival at resigned mysticism and Swedenborgian symbolism.""Swanwhite"" was written in the spring of 1901, about the...

The province of Dalecarlia has often been called the heart of Sweden. It is a centrally located inland province, said to contain a sample of everything the country can offer in the way of natural beauty. For centuries it played a remarkable part in Swedish history, taking the leadership time and again in the long struggle to rid the nation of a ...

Casarse es el libro más leído de August Strindberg en Suecia. La primera parte se publicó en 1884 y reunía «doce historias de matrimonios con entrevista y prólogo». El propio autor era consciente de que el lenguaje desenfadado y las escenas atrevidas le podían causar problemas con la justicia, y así fue. El proceso al libro ayudó a que fuese tod...

8°. Mit einer photographischen Abbildung des Autors als Frontispiz. 242 S., 1 Bl., (= Strindbergs Werke. Deutsche Gesamtausgabe, Abteilung: Romane, 3. Bd.). Gelbes Originalganzleinen mit rot-schwarzem Deckeltitel. Kopffarbschnitt.