Strindberg: A Life
Sue Prideaux
Yale, 2012
839.72 S918pr
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. - publisher
“In her rich Strindberg: A Life . . . Ms. Prideaux memorably
captures not only the turbulent intellectual atmosphere of the period
but also its legacy for later eras.”—Henrik Bering, Wall Street Journal
(Henrik Bering Wall Street Journal )