August Strindberg

August Strindberg , of its complete name Johan August Strindberg , born the January 22nd 1849 with Stockholm, dead the May 14th 1912 in Stockholm, was a writer, Dramaturge and painter Swedish. He belongs to the Swedish authors most important and is one of the fathers of the modern Théâtre. Its works are classified among two major literary currents: the naturalism and the Expressionnisme.

He was married with three recoveries, but its character neurotic and hypersensitive led each one of its unions to the divorce.

Its relations with the women were stormy, and its words and its acts were often seen like Misogyne S as much by his contemporaries that by the readers of today. However, much recognize that it had a rare knowledge of the Hypocrisie of waitings of its company with regard to the sexes, of the sexual behavior and the Moralité. The Marriage and the family were under tension at the time of Strindberg, whereas Sweden industrialized and urbanized with an insane pace. The questions of the Prostitution and morality were strongly discussed among the writers and the Politicien S. Its first writings often treated traditional role given to the sexes by the company, and which it described as unjust.

Strindberg was admired by the Working class and was Socialiste, even Anarchiste. His/her Karin daughter even married one of the leaders Bolchévique S. Her ideas political made it very popular in the socialist countries, in particular in Soviet Union or with Cuba. However, at the end of the years 1880, he disavowed socialism and discovered Nietzsche with which he corresponded until in the madness of this last. Nietzsche proposed to him to translate Ecce Homo , but, money lack, Strindberg required a remuneration that Nietzsche, also impécugneux, could not accept. Strindberg moved away then from the thought of Nietzsche and turned to mysticism.

After its death, Psychanalyste S supposed that its contradictory and difficult character was due to the fear of a latent Homosexualité. Others evoke its childhood. His/her mother was initially the maidservant of her father before their marriage.

Its novel the red Room ( Röda rummet ) (1879) made it famous. Its first parts were written in the style naturalist, and its work during this period is often compared with those of the Norwegian playwright Henrik Ibsen. Work headlight of this time is Miss Julie ( Fröken Julie ) (1888).

It then underwent a period of interior disorder which ended in the writing of a book in French, Inferno (1897).

It breaks then with the naturalism and starts to produce a work influenced by the symbolism. He is regarded as one of the pioneers of the modern European expressionnism. the Dance of dead ( Dödsdansen , 1900 - 1901) and the Sonata of the phantoms ( Spöksonaten , 1907) are known parts of this time.

One knows less than he was also painter, Photographe, Alchimiste, and telegraphist.

When it was still student, before becoming writer, it worked as assistant in a workshop of Chimie at the university of Lund in the south of Sweden.

Strindberg died of a Cancer in 1912, and is buried with the Norra begravningsplatsen in Stockholm.

See too

Bet , A. Strindberg & O. Hansson, Stalker Editeur (2007)
the plea of insane a (3rd & 4th parts), Stalker editor, (2005)

Its Swedish works

External bonds

Museum Strindberg, Sweden (In English)
Strindberg Museum in Austria (In German)

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