August Strindberg Libri

Composto di getto in meno di due mesi, tra il maggio e il giugno 1897, "Inferno" costituisce insieme il testo più misterioso, più mitico e più ironico di Strindberg. Scritto con l'abituale furia che giunge ad assumere i tratti sperimentali di una scrittura automatica, questo romanzo riflette la situazione di profonda crisi storica che ha segnato la fine dell'Ottocento e soprattutto i drammatici eventi personali dell'autore, il quale, reduce dal fallimento del suo secondo e tempestoso matrimonio, giunse a mettere in crisi tutte le proprie facoltà intellettuali e psichiche, approdando a una condizione di lucida follia: un precipitare in visionarie ossessioni che lo portarono a occuparsi, tra l'altro, di magia e di occultismo.

August Strindberg one of the founders of the modern theater, a playwight whom Bernard Shaw considered "the only genuinely Shakespearian modern dramatist" and of whom Sean O'Casey exclaimed, "Strindberg, Strindberg, Strindberg, the greatest of them all."This collection offers the most famous of his plays. It includes three examples of his naturalism -- The Father, 1887; Miss Julie, 1883; The Stronger, 1890 -- two of his expressionism -- A Dream Play, 1902; The Ghost Sonata, 1907 -- and Easter, a play whose interest derives from Its defying either of these categories.On these new translations by Elizabeth Sprigge, whose biography of Strindberg is the standard work on that figure, the American reader will have his first opportunity to know the true genius of the great Swedish playwright, for Miss Sprigge's unique achievement has been to render the original texts into an English that is at once fluent and accurate and to provide plays that capture the full vigor and impact of the original.

Frank McGuinness offers fresh adaptations of two plays by August Strindberg, showcasing his talent in reinterpreting both a significant piece and a lesser-known work. These new versions aim to capture the essence of Strindberg's themes and characters, bringing renewed life to his dramatic narratives.

A small island town tries to decipher the motivation behind a man newly hired to work the farm of a wealthy widow.

This autobiographical novel is based on Strindberg's life in the 1870s and 1880s, and focuses on his marriage to Siri von Essen. It purports to be a vehicle for explaining to himself his role in the relationship from its ecstatic beginnings to its catastrophic conclusion. Strindberg was writing at the time of the modern women's movement and the intense Nordic debate on sexual morality, and the novel echoes on an anguished personal level the theme of the battle of the sexes. It is one of his many and varied attempts to write his own life, to use himself as raw material. The novel was written in French and published as Le Plaidoyer d'un Fou in 1895. However, the French editor had made radical alterations to Strindberg's text - how radical was not discovered until 1973, when the original manuscript came to light. Previous translations into English have been made from the published French version or the Swedish translation of it; this is the first translation of Strindberg's original text.

The Red Room by Strindberg explores the complexities of idealism and reality through cultural workers in 1870s Stockholm. Known as the first modern Swedish novel, it humorously critiques societal hypocrisy while supporting the lower classes. This edition features innovative cluster text design, promoting a new perspective on reading and book aesthetics.

August Strindberg's best-known and most performed play (1889): the story of a torrid affair between a manservant and his mistress.