August Strindberg

Hace cien años moría en Estocolmo uno de los artistas más importantes de la literatura nórdica. A su entierro acudieron sesenta de los trescientos mil habitantes que tenía la ciudad en aquella época. August Strindberg es conocido fundamentalmente por sus obras dramaticas y por algunas de sus narraciones. Tambien fue un poderoso poeta, como lo demuestran algunos de los poemas que incluimos en ese libro, que reune fragmentos de muchas de sus obras, ya sea en forma dramatica, narrativa o poetica.Pero no solo destaco Strindberg en la escritura. Su pintura, muy poco conocida en nuestro pais, fue revolucionaria en su epoca, como tambien lo fueron sus fotografias. Simon Zabell señala en el prologo que Strindberg se adelanto cincuenta años al surrealismo y tambien se anticipo al expresionismo abstracto. Fue el inspirador de los heroicos pintores de la Escuela de Nueva York. Su potencia expresiva y su metodo de trabajo latenen pinturas de Pollock y Rothko, tambien presentes en esta edicion.Asi pues, este libro es una pequeña antologia de STRINDBERG (con mayusculas) ilustrada por el propio autor; una invitacion a descubrir el enorme talento artistico de este genio nordico y universal.

Creditors (1888) forma, amb El pare (1887) i La senyoreta Júlia (1888), una trilogia que és el croquis punyent d'un naufragi personal. Strindberg hi reflecta, d'una manera palpitant, la peripècia del seu primer divorci, l'aberració a què la conjugalitat redueix l'individu. Tres personatges, dos homes i una dona, es passen comptes de dos en dos. Cada un és el creditor inexorable que, a l'exigència despietada del deute, hi afegeix l'interès usurer d'anihilar l'altre. I com que cada personatge és, alhora, creditor i deutor, cada un acaba essent botxí i víctima. En aquesta pugna, els dos homes es perden escometent-se per la dona que diuen que estimen, però que, en veritat, únicament desitgen. Dissecada així per Strindberg, la relació conjugal es revela com una mera expressió de poder i de lubricitat, sota el control d'una dona que domina, si no l'escena, la situació. De retruc, l'autor ens serveix impulsivament una imatge, real i especular, de si mateix.

Adelantándose a su tiempo no sólo por los temas de sus obras sino también por las técnicas que en ellas empleó, el escritor y dramaturgo sueco August Strindberg fue quizá el principal precursor del arte contemporaneo. Con la aparicion en 1879 de "El cuarto rojo" la primera novela moderna sueca, Strindberg acabo con el espiritu superado y las formas exangues del tardo romanticismo y de la literatura convencional y academica, y paso a ocupar un primer plano en la cultura de su pais y de Europa. Por la dolorosa amargura con que representa la corrupcion de los distintos estamentos y costumbres sociales y, mas alla de contingencias historicas, la degeneracion del hombre en cuanto especie, "El cuarto rojo" es universalmente reconocida como una de las manifestaciones mas notables de la cultura moderna.Arvid Falk, un joven idealista y generoso, deja su empleo para dedicarse a la literatura militante. Al cabo de muchas experiencias amargas, vuelve a su vida de empleado y, ya sin ilusiones, dedica sus horas libres a la numismatica. A la figura de Arvid se contrapone la de su hermano, Carl Nicolaus, mezquino e hipocrita pero, sin embargo, con un fondo de humanidad verdadera. Una serie extraordinariamente incisiva de retratos de personajes y ambientes de la sociedad sueca de la epoca completan el impresionante edificio narrativo de la novela: figuras de la vida bohemia, periodistas sin conciencia y sin escrupulos, señoras ociosas, envidiosas y vanidosas que se dedican a la beneficencia, mujercitas corruptas que fingen el amor, editores incultos e intrigantes, comerciantes usureros y clerigos rapaces. Y, en medio de la sordidez ambiental, El cuarto rojo, un rincon de un bar de Estocolmo, se convierte en alegoria de la salvacion del hombre.

"The Red Room", written in 1879 by August Strindberg, is one of the biggest classics of Swedish literature.A funny, satirical look at 19th century bourgeois attitudes, "The Red Room" presents a loosely-connected group of counter-cultural artistic types and has them confront their counter-cultural and progressive ideals with those of conservative, mainstream society. Most of them are poor (well, poor bourgeois types), making ends meet by pawning each others possessions and taking on hack work thats beneath their dignity. Their goal is to be recognised as master-level artists by the stodgy mainstream, without having to give up their anti-mainstream ideals.Strindberg wrote funny observations of people and attitudes, and the situations he throws at his characters are frequently entertainingly absurd.

Alegato de un loco es la obra apasionada, vehemente y hasta cierto punto impúdica, de un hombre que ha traspasado esa frontera que separa el amor del odio. Alegato de un loco constituye uno de los

August Strindberg és, segurament, l𠆚utor més important per entendre la revolució de la dramatúrgia europea en el tombant de segles XIX i XX. Aquesta antologia aplega per primera vegada en llengua ca

El protagonista d’aquesta narració breu, d’inspiració autobiogràfica, és un escriptor de 50 anys que retorna a Estocolm després de passar deu anys al camp. En arribar a la ciutat on va néixer, s’envo

Caryl Churchills spare and resonant version of Strindbergs enigmatic masterpiece.Written in 1901, a mysterious amalgam of Freud, Alice in Wonderland and Strindbergs own private symbolism, A Dream Play follows the logic of a dream:A young woman comes from another world to see if life is really as difficult as people make it out to be. Characters merge into each other, locations change in an instant and a locked door becomes an obsessive recurrent image. As Strindberg wrote in his preface, he wanted to imitate the disjointed yet seemingly logical shape of a dream. Everything can happen, everything is possible and probable. Time and place do not exist.This version of A Dream Play, from a literal translation by Charlotte Barslund, is by leading playwright Caryl Churchill. It was first performed in the Cottesloe auditorium of the National Theatre, London, in February 2005, in a production directed by Katie Mitchell, with additional material by Katie Mitchell and the company.Also included is an introduction by Caryl Churchill.

QUESTO LIBRO E A LAYOUT FISSORomanzo autobiografico scritto nel 1896-97 tratta della vita di Strindberg durante e dopo il suo soggiorno a Parigi ed esplora, in una sorta di diario al quale Strindberg affida tutto se stesso, le sue molteplici ossessioni. La sua vita fu, come noto, una successione di cataclismi: il piu brutale e, nel contempo, fecondo, fu proprio quello del 1895, quando, a Parigi, la mano dellinvisibile lo precipito in unesperienza sconvolgente, catapultandolo in un susseguirsi di paranoie che ne tormentavano lanimo.Percepivo su di me lo sdegno delle Potenze ignote. La mano dellInvisibile si era levata e i suoi colpi si abbattevano sul mio capo.In Inferno, Strindberg si rivela al lettore come lalchimista delirante che, in squallide stanze dalbergo, tenta di trasformare il piombo in oro; come una mente ossessionata per la quale ogni fatto diviene necessariamente segno e ogni coincidenza corrispondenza.Tutti chiedono dei segni e dei miracoli, e segni e miracoli ci sono, ma nessuno sa chi li operi, poiche le potenze nere non sono meno capaci, nelle arti magiche, delle potenze bianche.La sua scrittura ci conduce cosi tra il dramma cosmico e la farsa, tra il soprannaturale e il quotidiano, in una concatenazione di eventi che paiono condurlo a un sempre piu tragico destino.August Strindberg (1849-1912), narratore, drammaturgo e poeta svedese, e autore del dramma Maestro Olof (1871), dei romanzi La stanza rossa (1879) e Considerazioni di un alienato e delle novelle Destini e avventure svedesi (1882-1891).

Det skulle bli spökdiné hos professor Stenkåhl, men bara andra klassens uppbåd, ty kraschanerna hade ryckt ut där dagen förut. Chateauvinerna voro utdruckna och vaktmästaren satte fram de vita, som f

Drama Classics: The Worlds Great Plays at a Great Little PriceStrindbergs chilling anatomy of a marriage, in which the two partners duel with each other until one is utterly defeated.Edgar and Alice, embittered husband and wife, live on an army base on a Swedish island. Alice calls it Little Hell, and its about to get worse.Written in 1900 and consisting of two full-length plays, August Strindbergs The Dance of Death is full of destruction and bitterness, laced with grim humour. Both parts are included in this volume though usually only the first is staged.This English version of The Dance of the Death in the Nick Hern Books Drama Classics series is translated and introduced by Stephen Mulrine.

Midsummers Eve, Sweden. A night when the sun doesnt set. A night of drinking and dancing. A night to break the rules.When Julie, alone on her fathers estate, gatecrashes the servants party, she finds herself in a dangerous tryst with her fathers manservant, Jean. What begins as a flirtatious game gradually descends, over the course of a long and sultry night, into a savage fight for survival.Howard Brenton brings August Strindbergs genius to life in this brilliant adaptation of Miss Julie. It premiered at Theatre by the Lake, Keswick, in 2017, before transferring to Jermyn Street Theatre, London.

In the oppressive heat of Midsummers Eve, Julie, daughter of the lord, is drawn into a dangerous tryst with her fathers butler. As the night wears on, the couple, from opposite ends of the social spectrum, dance, flirt and fight towards an explosive conclusion that will shake the existing order to its core. Zinnie Harriss new version of Strindbergs nineteenth-century masterpiece, Miss Julie, relocates the play to central Scotland between the wars. The play premiered at Platform, Easterhouse, in a National Theatre of Scotland Ensemble production in September 2006.

August Strindbergs gripping psychological drama about the battle of the sexes, in a version by Mike Poulton.Strindbergs play The Father is about a marriage wrecked by the parents need to claim exclusive rights to their daughters love, and to determine her future. By turns comic and deeply tragic, it shows an affable, scholarly father fall victim to a once loving wife who will stop at nothing to do what she thinks is right for her child.The only possible outcome is a grim, yet thrilling fight to the death in circumstances of almost unbearable tension.Written in 1887, The Father was first staged in Berlin in 1890. This English version by Mike Poulton was first staged at the Minerva Theatre, Chichester, in 2006.

Young artist Adolf is deeply in love with his new wife Tekla but a chance meeting with a suave stranger shakes his devotion to the core.Passionate, dangerously funny, and enduringly perceptive, Strindberg considered this wickedly enjoyable black comedy his masterpiece.August Strindbergs play Creditors was written in the summer of 1888, and first staged at the Dagmar Theatre in Copenhagen in March 1889.This English version by Howard Brenton was premiered in March 2019 in a co-production between Jermyn Street Theatre, London, and Theatre by the Lake, Keswick, directed by Jermyn Streets Artistic Director Tom Littler.

Strindberg puso el subtítulo de «comedia» a Crímenes y crímenes, pero en un sentido casi dantesco del término. En efecto, en esta obra, lo que vive el protagonista, el dramaturgo Maurice, es un infie