Strindberg: A Biography - Brossura

Meyer, Michael Leverson

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ISBN 10: 019281995X ISBN 13: 9780192819956

Casa editrice: Oxford Univ Pr, 1987

Riassunto

Called "that greatest genius of all modern dramatists" by Eugene O'Neill, Strindberg was one of the founders of the modern theater--a prolific author whose works prefigured those of Pinter, Beckett, and Ionesco. Yet, despite their admiration by such contemporaries as Ibsen, Chekhov, and George Bernard Shaw, Strindberg's works were misunderstood and rejected by his fellow Swedes, who throughout his life considered him a crank and a failure.
In this definitive biography, Michael Meyer, the foremost translator of Strindberg's plays into English, presents a full and honest portrait of Strindberg as man and artist. Concentrating on his contribution to the theater, Meyer has sifted through Strindberg's voluminous autobiographical writings as well as published and unpublished letters to discover the source of his art and its meaning to both Strindberg and the theater. He also gives a sense of Strindberg's troubled life--his three tempestuous marriages, his exile, his often disputatious relations with other artists-- and sheds new light on the playwright's supposed misogyny, his bouts with madness, and his paranoia.

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About the Author:
Michael Meyer, the author of Ibsen: A Biography, was awarded the Gold Medal of the Swedish Academy for his English translations of Ibsen's and Strindberg's plays.

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Book by Meyer Michael Leverson

Su questa edizione

• Editore: Oxford Univ Pr
• Data di pubblicazione: 1987
• ISBN 10: 019281995X
• ISBN 13: 9780192819956
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 672