Strindberg by Sue Prideaux
A Life
A vivid, psychologically probing biography that follows the tempestuous life of the playwright August Strindberg from his impoverished Stockholm childhood to his meteoric rise and furious fall and resurgence, exploring his stormy marriages, public quarrels, and battles with critics and censorship. Combining close readings of his plays and novels with archival research and rich cultural context, the book traces his creative and personal crises—most famously the ‘‘Inferno’’ period—when he experimented with mysticism, alchemy and hallucination, and shows how those experiences fed into his art. The portrait is neither hagiographic nor purely condemnatory but presents a complex, often self-destructive genius whose psychological volatility, intellectual restlessness and innovations helped shape modern drama.
- Published
- 2012
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- British
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- Original Language
- English
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