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The road to Damascus


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INTRODUCTION Strindberg's great trilogy The Road to Damascus presents many mysteries to the uninitiated. Its peculiar changes of mood, its gallery of half unreal characters, its bizarre episodes combine to make it a bewilderingly rich but rather 'difficult' work. It cannot be recommended to the lover of light drama or the seeker of momentary distraction. The Road to Damascus does not deal with the superficial strata of human life, but probes into those depths where the problems of God, and death, and eternity become terrifying realities. Many authors have, of course, dealt with the profoundest problems of humanity without, on that account, having been able to evoke our interest. There may have been too much philosophy and too little art in the presentation of the subject, too little reality and too much soaring into the heights. That is not so with Strindberg's drama. It is a trenchant settling of accounts between a complex and fascinating individual-the author-and his past, and the realistic scenes have often been transplanted in detail from his own changeful life. In order fully to understand The Road to Damascus it is therefore essential to know at least the most important features of that background of real life, out of which the drama has grown. Parts I and II of the trilogy were written in 1898, while Part III was added somewhat later, in the years 1900-1901. In 1898 Strindberg had only half emerged from what was by far the severest of the many crises through which in his troubled life he had to pass. He had overcome the worst period of terror, which had brought him dangerously near the borders of sanity, and he felt as if he could again open his eyes and breathe freely. He was not free from that nervous pressure under which he had been working, but the worst of the inner tension had relaxed and he felt the need of taking a survey of what had happened, of summarising and trying to fathom what could have been underlying his apparently unaccountable experiences. The literary outcome of this settling of accounts with the past was The Road to Damascus.
About the Author: Johan August Strindberg né le 22 janvier 1849 à Stockholm, mort le 14 mai 1912 à Stockholm, est un écrivain, dramaturge et peintre suédois. Il fait partie des auteurs suédois les plus importants et est un des pères du théâtre moderne. Ses oeuvres se classent parmi deux courants littéraires majeurs, le naturalisme et l'expressionnisme. August Strindberg est le quatrième des huit enfants de Carl Oscar Strindberg, agent d'un armateur, et de son épouse, née Ulrika Eleonora (Nora) Norling, ancienne domestique de la maison paternelle. August Strindberg est marqué par une enfance instable qui oscille entre négligence et ferveur religieuse, et par les déménagements fréquents (dix fois jusqu'à l'âge de vingt ans). Il commence l'école dans un établissement dont la sévérité le hantera longtemps, puis poursuit ses études à partir de 1861 dans un lycée (Stockholms Lyceum) privé de Stockholm d'esprit libéral. Il est particulièrement doué en français et en sciences naturelles. Sa mère meurt de tuberculose en 1862 et son père, avec lequel il entretient des relations difficiles, se remarie avec la gouvernante des enfants, Emma Charlotta Peterson dont il a un fils, Emil. L'adolescent se réfugie dans le piétisme. Avant de devenir écrivain, alors qu'il est encore étudiant, il travaille comme assistant dans un atelier de chimie à l'université de Lund au sud-ouest de la Suède. Il est également peintre, photographe et télégraphiste. Il a été marié à trois reprises, mais son caractère hypersensible, voire névrosé a conduit chacune de ses unions au divorce. Il s'est marié la première fois avec l'actrice Siri von Essen (1850-1912) en 1877, elle-même divorcée du baron Carl Gustaf von Wrangel. Deux filles, Karin (1880) et Greta (1881), et un fils, Hans (1884) sont nés de cette union. Les époux se séparent en 1891. Il fait la connaissance en 1893 de la jeune journaliste Frida Uhl (1872-1943), âgée de vingt ans, qu'il épouse quelques mois plus tard et avec qui il vit au château de Dornach (propriété des grands-parents de la jeune femme) pendant le reste de l'année. Elle lui donne une fille, Kerstin, en 1894. Il séjourne à Versailles pendant l'automne 1894 et au Petit-Quevilly en 1895. Leur divorce a lieu en 1897, à cause de la liaison que Frida Strindberg entretient avec Frank Wedekind. Strindberg traverse une grave crise psychique. Son troisième mariage a lieu en 1901 avec la jeune artiste Harriet Bosse (1878-1961) dont il a fait la connaissance quelques mois auparavant.


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  • ISBN-13: 9781515277491
  • Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
  • Publisher Imprint: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
  • Height: 229 mm
  • No of Pages: 298
  • Series Title: English
  • Weight: 449 gr
  • ISBN-10: 1515277496
  • Publisher Date: 29 Jul 2015
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: N
  • Spine Width: 16 mm
  • Width: 152 mm


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