Novelist, satirist, poet, photographer, painter, alchemist, and hellraiser--August Strindberg was all these, and yet he is principally known, in Arthur Miller's words, as "the mad inventor of modern theater" who led playwriting out of the polite drawing room into the snakepit of psychological warfare. This biography, supported by extensive new research, describes the eventful and complicated life of one of the great literary figures in world literature. Sue Prideaux organizes Strindberg's story into a gripping and highly readable narrative that both illuminates his work and restores humor and humanity to a man often shrugged off as too difficult. Best known for his play "Miss Julie, " Strindberg wrote sixty other plays, three books of poetry, eighteen novels, and nine autobiographies. Even more than most, Strindberg is a writer whose life sheds invaluable light on his work.
"Prideaux's biography [of Strindberg] . . . is lavishly illustrated and reasonably priced and efficiently narrates the complex life in 308 pages."--Jeffrey Meyers, "Booklist"--Jeffrey Meyers "Booklist "
Title: Strindberg
Subtitle: a life
Contributors:
By (author)
Sue Prideaux
ISBN 13: 9780300136937
ISBN 10: 0300136935
Publisher: Yale University Press
Imprint: Yale University Press
Publication Date: 21/02/2012
Place of Publication:
New Haven,
United States
Edition:
BIC Subjects:
Biography & autobiography: literary
NBS Classification: Biography: Literary
Dewey Classification:
839.726
(DC23)
;
839.7267
(DC23)
;
839.7267
(DC21)
Format: Hardback
Pages: 352
Height: 234mm
Width: 156mm
Thickness: 39mm
Weight: 666g