Strindberg - Softcover

Mortensen, Brita

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0521092604 ISBN 13: 9780521092609

Publisher: Cambridge University Press, 2010

Synopsis

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.

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Book Description

Originally published in paperback in 1965, this is an introduction to Strindberg's life and work. Includes biographical chapters by Professor Downs, chapters by Miss Mortensen on Strindberg's works and their impact, and two final chapters dealing with Strindberg's directly autobiographical works, his poetry, criticism and correspondence.

Edition details

• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Publication date: 2010
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0521092604
• ISBN 13: 9780521092609
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 248