August Strindberg

The Red Room

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Produktbeschreibung

A satire of the rapidly changing society of the 1870s, it was Strindberg's first novel and marked his literary breakthrough. It contains some of the great set-piece scenes in Swedish literature, a gallery of unforgettable caricatures in the spirit of Dickens, humour, pathos and satirical targets as apt now as they were then.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Norvik Press
• 2 Revised edition
• Seitenzahl: 322
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. April 2019
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 210mm x 148mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 410g
• ISBN-13: 9781909408517
• ISBN-10: 1909408514
• Artikelnr.: 56164016

Autorenporträt

Johan August Strindberg (1849 - 1912) was a Swedish playwright, novelist, poet, essayist and painter. A prolific writer who often drew directly on his personal experience, Strindberg's career spanned four decades, during which time he wrote over 60 plays and more than 30 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 (1879) has frequently been described as the first modern Swedish novel.