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| Inferno / From an Occult Diary | 
 enlarge | Author: August Strindberg
Creators: Torsten Eklund, Mary Sandbach
Publisher: Penguin Classics
Category: Book
Buy New: $79.00
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Avg. Customer Rating:  2 reviews
Sales Rank: 1034247
Media: Paperback
Pages: 432
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.5
Dimensions (in): 7 x 5 x 1
ISBN: 0140443649
Dewey Decimal Number: 813
EAN: 9780140443646
ASIN: 0140443649
Publication Date: April 26, 1979
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Condition: Not a remainder.
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 A Troubled Genius May 8, 2000
14 out of 14 found this review helpful
Strindberg was one of the foremost playwrights of the 19th century, almost equal in stature to the other great Scandinavian, Ibsen. This work is a departure in that the author takes as his subject his own psyche. The schizophrenia and paranoia he suffers from comes at the reader in waves. We are drawn into the vortex of his twisted reasoning, his fears, his misanthropic vision. About the nearest parallel I can think of is the work of Antonin Artaud, who also is quite adept at describing his own psychoses. What seperates them, in my opinion, is that Strindberg is a much greater writer and can at times objectively look at his subject (himself), whereas Arataud tends towards the monomaniacal. I would recommend this work for anyone interested in modern playwrights or in the psychological underpinnings of the artistic temperament.
 strindberg goes insane March 25, 2000
9 out of 9 found this review helpful
In Inferno Strindberg writes about the mental problems that he suffered from during the 1890s in a such a convincing way that you almost begin to wonder whether he really was mad. At times you really believe that everyone was out to get him and maybe they were(he made himself very impopular in his native Sweden with some of his books). I guess this book gives you a good description of just how fine the line between genious and insanity is. If you like Terese Raquin by Zola this one is for you!
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