August Strindberg
1849–1912
Biography
Johan August Strindberg (1849–1912) was a Swedish writer of plays, novels, poems and essays who also painted. Across four decades he produced more than sixty plays, along with a large body of fiction, memoir, history and cultural criticism, much of it drawn from his own experience.
He is often called the father of modern Swedish literature, and his novel The Red Room (1879) is frequently cited as the first modern Swedish novel. His stage work moved from naturalism, in plays such as The Father (1887) and Miss Julie (1888), toward dream plays like A Dream Play (1902), which anticipated expressionist and surrealist theatre.
Three of his prose works are on this site: Hemsöborna, a novel about the people of a Swedish island community; Götiska rummen; and I Vårbrytningen. Outside Sweden he is mostly remembered as a dramatist, so these titles give a fuller picture of his work as a novelist and essayist.
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Books
Götiska rummen: Släktöden från sekelslutet
by August Strindberg
Twenty-five years after The Red Room, Strindberg returns to Stockholm at the end of the century, where Doctor Borg and his family gather in the Gothic Rooms restaurant. Marriages, careers, scandals and new ideas pass through the lives of an extended family as the century runs…
Summary written by Claude Opus 5.5.Hemsöborna
by August Strindberg
Carlsson, a smooth-talking farmhand from Värmland, arrives on the island of Hemsö to take charge of the widow Flod's neglected farm, and soon has his eye on the widow herself. Strindberg's comic and finally sombre novel of the Stockholm archipelago follows the work, fishing…
Summary written by Claude Opus 5.5.I Vårbrytningen
by August Strindberg
Strindberg's early stories and sketches: sketches of student life at Uppsala, storms and sailors in the Stockholm archipelago, and pieces from Stockholm and abroad. Satirical, lyrical and sometimes bitter, they show a young writer finding his voice. This book uses the racial and…
Summary written by Claude Opus 5.5.Inferno
by August Strindberg
Inferno is an autobiographical novel by August Strindberg. Written in French in 1896–97 at the height of Strindberg's troubles with both censors and women, the book is concerned with Strindberg's life both in and after he lived in Paris, and explores his various obsessions…
Summary from Wikipedia: Inferno (Strindberg novel) (CC BY-SA 4.0)Röda rummet: Skildringar ur artist- och författarlivet
by August Strindberg
Arvid Falk, a young civil servant who wants to be a writer, leaves the office for the bohemian circle of painters and authors who meet in the Red Room of a Stockholm restaurant. Strindberg's first novel, a satire of the press, the church, the stock market and the art world of…
Summary written by Claude Sonnet 5.5.Skärkarlsliv
by August Strindberg
Strindberg's tales of the islanders of the Stockholm archipelago, opening with a short novel about a romantic young organist sent to the remote island of Rånö. The stories that follow bring in a summer curate, the parson's elk, a murderer, a vow made in a storm and the loves of…
Summary written by Claude Opus 5.5.