The Defence of a Madman - Softcover

Strindberg, August

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1909408158 ISBN 13: 9781909408159

Verlag: Norvik Press, 2015

Inhaltsangabe

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.

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August Strindberg (1849-1912), Swedish playwright and prose writer, whose Naturalistic drama in 1880s gained him international fame. During the period covered by the diary, Strindberg underwent a spiritual and artistic reorientation, which resulted in his creating theatrically innovating, modern, expressionistic dramas.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Norvik Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2015
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 1909408158
• ISBN 13: 9781909408159
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 326
• Kontakt zum Hersteller: Nicht verfügbar
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