Strindberg

Strindberg

Author: Sue Prideaux

Publisher:

Published: 2013-07-01

Total Pages: 352

ISBN-13: 9780300198065

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The author looks at the life of the playwright best known for the work Miss Julie, paying special attention to how real life inspired the ideas, premises and characters of his plays and other literary works.


There Are Crimes and Crimes; A Comedy

There Are Crimes and Crimes; A Comedy

Author: August Strindberg

Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand

Published: 2023-09-09

Total Pages: 126

ISBN-13: 3387037031

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Reproduction of the original. The publishing house Megali specialises in reproducing historical works in large print to make reading easier for people with impaired vision.


The Red Room

The Red Room

Author: August Strindberg

Publisher: BoD - Books on Demand

Published: 2023-06-14

Total Pages: 226

ISBN-13: 9180804721

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"I'll tell you what, Ygberg, I believe one has to be very unscrupulous if one wants to get on in the world." That's how The Red Room could be summarised through one of its sentences. Through a number of cultural workers Strindberg asks the question of how life should be lived. As a young person, you can pretend to be an ardent idealist; as an older, somewhat sober person, you can come to realise that what you from the beginning thought to be idealistic may not really be. Through its straightforward language The Red Room (1879) is often called the first modern novel in Swedish. It constitutes a representation of Stockholm in the 1870s and is known for its depictions of the urban environment as well as its satire. The book is an attempt to stand by the lower classes by humorously attacking the hypocrisy of the higher classes. The Red Room was described as dirt by contemporary critics, but it was an immediate success. This edition of The Red Room constitutes the first novel in the cluster text style, which could be 20 percent better than ordinary texts, and is intended to function as a kind of survey for how we look at text, reading and book design. This book, in Swedish, was made as an entry for Svensk bokkonst, which every year rewards good examples of book design. The winners get to participate in Stiftung Buchkunt's Best Book Design from all over the World which in German is called Schönste Bücher aus aller Welt. This difference captures an important gap. Book design has long been about designing beautiful books. Now we'll see how Svensk bokkonst and possibly Stiftung Buchkunst see this. What do you think? Should we read cluster texts? You will get an answer to that question by reading this edition of The Red Room. PLEASE NOTE that the text in this book, i.e. cluster text, cannot be reflown and therefore needs to be read on tablets/screens at least 13 centimetres wide, which can handle line lengths of 95 characters (i.e. smaller screens are not suitable).


Historical Miniatures

Historical Miniatures

Author: August Strindberg

Publisher: IndyPublish.com

Published: 1913

Total Pages: 384

ISBN-13:

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A philosopher and poet here describes the visions which a study of the history of mankind has called up before his inner eye'


The International Strindberg

The International Strindberg

Author: Anna Westerståhl Stenport

Publisher: Northwestern University Press

Published: 2012-11-30

Total Pages: 288

ISBN-13: 0810128500

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The International Strindberg presents the latest research on the Swedish playwright August Strindberg and his relation to modern and contemporary literature and art. Strindberg's career spanned the late nineteenth and early twentieth century.


European Literature from Romanticism to Postmodernism

European Literature from Romanticism to Postmodernism

Author: Martin Travers

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing

Published: 2006-06-15

Total Pages: 369

ISBN-13: 0826439608

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European Literature from Romanticism to Postmodernism is an anthology of key theoretical writings by the major representatives of the schools and movements of recent European literature. Each chapter is devoted to one particular school of movement from within the broad body of literature, from romanticism, realism and modernism though to the literature of political engagement of the 1920s and 1930s, and the more recent initiative of postmodernism. These texts are approached both on their own terms as individual formulations of the goals and procedures (literary, aesthetic and political) that characterized the work of these writers, and as key documents of the literary school or movement to which these writers belonged.