From Library Journal
Swedish author August Strindberg attained success early in his career as a Naturalist writer during the 1870s and 1880s in such works as Master Olaf and Miss Julie. In an age much impressed by the promise of science, Strindberg believed that art should be "politically, ethically, and aesthetically correct." However, his intellectual belief that art should imitate and be faithful to life could not entirely overcome his Romantic fascination with the power of the imagination, and he soon fell out of favor with the critical community. For over a decade, he lived in exile until, in the 1890s, his renewed interest in painting and his association with such fin de siecle notaries as Gauguin and Munch helped him produce some of his best work. Carlson (theater, Queens Coll. and Graduate Center, CUNY) includes an impressive 14-page bibliography in English and Swedish. He offers a readable and important work recommended for academic, public, and high school libraries with collections in literary criticism or comparative literature.?Katherine K. Koenig, The Ellis School, Pittsburgh, Pa.
Copyright 1996 Reed Business Information, Inc.
Copyright 1996 Reed Business Information, Inc.
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