Strindberg - Sue Prideaux

A Mesmerizing Account Of The Chaotic Life And Brilliant Work Of A Playwright Whose Influence Is Undiminished 100 Years After His Death Novelist, Satirist, Poet, Photographer, Painter, Alchemist, And Hellraiseraugust Strindberg Was All These, And Yet He Is Principally Known, In Arthur Millers 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 Research, Describes The Eventful And Complicated Life Of One Of The Great Literary Figures In World Literature. Sue Prideaux Organizes Strindbergs 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.