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Johan August Strindberg (/ ˈ s t r ɪ n (d) b ɜːr ɡ /, Swedish: [ˈǒːɡɵst ˈstrɪ̂nːdbærj] ⓘ; 22 January 1849 – 14 May 1912) was a Swedish playwright, novelist, poet, essayist, and painter.
May 10, 2024 · naturalism. August Strindberg (born Jan. 22, 1849, Stockholm, Swed.—died May 14, 1912, Stockholm) was a Swedish playwright, novelist, and short-story writer, who combined psychology and Naturalism in a new kind of European drama that evolved into Expressionist drama. His chief works include The Father (1887), Miss Julie (1888), Creditors ...
Biography. AUGUST STRINDBERG 22.1 1849 – 14.5 1912. A photograph of Strindberg, taken during his last walk in April of 1912, shows a dark figure surrounded by whirling snow. His face is in shadow, almost blank. The expression changes: a sick, introspective old man, an aggressive hunter, an elder reconciled with the world.
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August Strindberg was a playwright, theatre practitioner, novelist, essayist, dramatist, and painter. Though outside Sweden he is well known for his plays but not his other works. A prolific writer, he wrote about 60 plays.
The Yin to Henrik Ibsen’s Yang, August Strindberg is one of the greatest playwrights of all time. A contemporary to Chekhov and Ibsen, Strindberg offered something totally different to both of those great writers. Dreams, surrealism and sex. Which sounds great right? I mean – what a combo.
In both A Dream Play (1901) and The Ghost Sonata (1907), Strindberg writes in his then new-found Post-Inferno Expressionist mode where time, place, characters, and situations merge, split and melt. In A Dream Play , an Indic god Indra who yearns to learn about human nature reincarnates as a woman named Agnes.
August Strindberg - Playwright, Naturalism, Expressionism: To the end, Strindberg debated current social and political ideas (returning to the radical views of his youth) in polemical articles, while his philosophy was expounded in the aphoristic Zones of the Spirit (1907–12).
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