August Strindberg

The Defence of a Madman

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Produktbeschreibung

This autobiographical novel is based on Strindberg's life in the 1870s and 1880s, and focuses on his marriage to Siri von Essen.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Norvik Press
• Seitenzahl: 326
• Erscheinungstermin: 29. September 2014
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 198mm x 129mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 354g
• ISBN-13: 9781909408159
• ISBN-10: 1909408158
• Artikelnr.: 42081020

Autorenporträt

Johan August Strindberg (1849 - 1912) was a Swedish playwright, novelist, poet, essayist and painter. A prolific writer who often drew directly on his personal experience, Strindberg's career spanned four decades, during which time he wrote over 60 plays and more than 30 works of fiction, autobiography, history, cultural analysis and politics. A bold experimenter and iconoclast throughout, he explored a wide range of dramatic methods and purposes, from naturalistic tragedy, monodrama and history plays, to his anticipations of expressionist and surrealist dramatic techniques. From his earliest work, Strindberg developed innovative forms of dramatic action, language and visual composition. He is considered the "father" of modern Swedish literature and his The Red Room (1879) has frequently been described as the first modern Swedish novel.