Johan August Strindberg was a Swedish playwright, novelist, poet, essayist and painter. A prolific writer who often drew directly on his personal experience, Strindbergs career spanned four decades, during which time he wrote over sixty plays and more than thirty works of fiction, autobiography, history, cultural analysis, and politics. A bold experimenter and iconoclast throughout, he explored a wide range of dramatic methods and purposes, from naturalistic tragedy, monodrama, and history plays, to his anticipations of expressionist and surrealist dramatic techniques. From his earliest work, Strindberg developed innovative forms of dramatic action, language, and visual composition. He is considered the "father" of modern Swedish literature and his The Red Room has frequently been described as the first modern Swedish novel. This work contains:A CHRONOLOGICAL LIST OF AUGUST STRINDBERGS MAIN WORKSTHE DREAM PLAYTHE LINKTHE DANCE of DEATH, PART ITHE DANCE of DEATH, PART II
Cuando arde el corazón es un comentario al evangelio litúrgico dominical del ciclo C. Pretende ayudar a todos los cristianos (laicos, religiosos, sacerdotes) a preparar la Mesa de la Palabra que se despliega en las eucaristias de los domingos. Cuando arde el corazon sigue el itinerario de la Lectio Divina, tan utilizado en la tradicion de la Iglesia y recomendado por los ultimos papas. A los pasos propuestos desde los inicios (lectura, meditacion, oracion/contemplacion), hemos añadido el del compromiso, porque el Evangelio esta llamado a encarnarse en nuestro mundo. Cuando arde el corazon, el titulo que pone nombre a esta publicacion, recoge unas palabras de los discipulos de Emaus que resuenan hoy, a modo de profecia, en toda persona y comunidad creyente que se deja invadir por la Palabra.
Since the accompanying biographical note, which aims solely at outlining the principal events of Strindbergs life up to 1912, was put in type, the news of his death from cancer, at Stockholm on May 14, 1912, has been reported.Of the plays included in the present volume, "The Father" and "Countess Julie" are representative of Strindbergs high water mark in dramatic technique and have successfully maintained their claim to a permanent place, not only in dramatic literature, but, as acting plays."The Stronger," than which no better example of Strindbergs uncanny power for analysis of the female mind exists, while essentially a chamber play, is from time to time presented at the theatre, and affords a splendid test of the dramatic ability of the actors, only one of whom speaks. The author has boldly thrown on the other the burden of maintaining her share in the development of the action by pantomime, facial expression, and an occasional laugh."The Outlaw," although inferior in construction to the others, is still played with success and is full of dignity and atmosphere. The important part it played in promoting the fortunes of the author lends to it an added interest which fully justifies its inclusion in this volume: THE FATHER; COUNTESS JULIE; THE OUTLAW; THE STRONGER
«Una cena de fantasmas iba a tener lugar en casa del profesor Stenkåhl ». Así introduce Strindberg la que sería su última novela, y la más polémica de una carrera ya de por sí marcada por la controve
Aquesta és la història d'una agonia, narrada en primera persona en forma d'un llarg monòleg, per un personatge que hi reviu el fracàs del seu matrimoni. Amb un paral·lelisme evident amb la vida de l'
In "Inferno", the psychologically disturbed narrator sets forth on a journey through an earthly hell and emerges purified of his sins.Alchemy, schizophrenia, witchcraft, and religious fanaticism, all leavened with a knowing wink of humour, "Inferno", by Swedish author August Strindberg is an early example of the unreliable narrator literary device, in which the reader learns that the storyteller is seeing things from a distorted perspective. It is also deliciously macabre."Inferno" is for the most part based on a diary that Strindberg kept between 1896 and 1908 - undoubtedly the most troubled period of his life.
