LEADER 03724nam 2200601Ia 450 001 9910812176403321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a1-283-70006-9 010 $a0-300-19419-6 024 7 $a10.12987/9780300194197 035 $a(CKB)2670000000275940 035 $a(EBL)3421071 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000757003 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11428143 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000757003 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10753668 035 $a(PQKB)10278365 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3421071 035 $a(DE-B1597)486301 035 $a(OCoLC)815380442 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780300194197 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL3421071 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10614925 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL401256 035 $a(OCoLC)923601289 035 $a(EXLCZ)992670000000275940 100 $a20110927d2012 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurnn#---|u||u 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aStrindberg $ea life /$fSue Prideaux 205 $a1st ed. 210 $aNew Haven $cYale University Press$d2012 215 $a1 online resource (359 p.) 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 0 $a0-300-13693-5 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 335-337) and index. 327 $tFront matter --$tCONTENTS --$tPreface --$t1. MISS JULIE'S KITCHEN --$t2. THE SON OF A SERVANT --$t3. BASIC TRAINING --$t4. THE FREETHINKER --$t5. PLAYING WITH FIRE --$t6. A SHORT SWEDISH HONEYMOON --$t7. RABBLE ROUSER --$t8. UNDER THE ICE --$t9. MADNESS AND MODERNITY --$t10. EXPERIMENTAL THEATRE --$t11. THE BLACK PIGLET --$t12. FRIDA, NO STRANGER TO DRAMA --$t13. FRENCH VIVISECTIONS --$t14. INFERNO --$t15. OUT OF INFERNO --$t16. HARRIET BOSSE --$t17. THE INTIMATE THEATRE --$t18. The Blue Tower --$tNOTES --$tSELECT BIBLIOGRAPHY --$tSTRINDBERG'S PRINCIPAL LITERARY WORKS --$tCHRONOLOGY 330 $aNovelist, satirist, poet, photographer, painter, alchemist, and hellraiser-August Strindberg was all these, and yet he is principally known, in Arthur Miller's words, as "the mad inventor of modern theater" who led playwriting out of the polite drawing room into the snakepit of psychological warfare. This biography, supported by extensive new research, describes the eventful and complicated life of one of the great literary figures in world literature. Sue Prideaux organizes Strindberg's story into a gripping and highly readable narrative that both illuminates his work and restores humor and humanity to a man often shrugged off as too difficult. Best known for his play Miss Julie, Strindberg wrote sixty other plays, three books of poetry, eighteen novels, and nine autobiographies. Even more than most, Strindberg is a writer whose life sheds invaluable light on his work. Prideaux explores Strindberg's many art-life connections, revealing for the first time the originals who inspired the characters of Miss Julie and her servant Jean, the bizarre circumstances in which the play was written, and the real suicide that inspired the shattering ending of the play. Recounting the playwright's journey through the "real" world as well as the world of belief and ideas, Prideaux marks the centenary of Strindberg's death in 1912 with a biography worthy of the man who laid the foundation for Western drama through the twentieth century and even into the twenty-first. 606 $aAuthors, Swedish$y19th century$vBiography 615 0$aAuthors, Swedish 676 $a839.72/67 676 $aB 700 $aPrideaux$b Sue$01614382 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910812176403321 996 $aStrindberg$94057315 997 $aUNINA