Biography august strindberg jr
- In 1879, August Strindberg was the new “it” author in Scandinavia.
- Playwright, novelist, poet, amateur scientist, and painter, the Swedish writer August Strindberg was one of the most important figures in world literature.
- This document provides biographical information about the Swedish playwright August Strindberg.
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August Strindberg, in Full Johan August Strindberg, (Born Jan
August Strindberg, in Full Johan August Strindberg, (Born Jan
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Strindberg’s Biography
Strindberg’s Breakthrough as an Artist
In 1879, August Strindberg was the new “it” author in Scandinavia. Having dabbled in playwriting and painting and having worked for some time as an assistant librarian at the Royal Library in Stockholm, he was known of by some but had yet to make the first of many splashes in Swedish literary circles. That breakthrough would come with the novel The Red Room (Röda rummet) in 1879. A no holds barred critique of the Stockholm bohemian artist community; many hailed the novel as the first modern novel written in Swedish. More importantly (for Strindberg’s career, perhaps) it earned high praise from Georg Brandes[KL1], the Danish critic whose 1871 lecture series “Main Currents in Nineteenth Century Literature” is responsible for bringing the tenants of Modernism[KL2] (in particular Realism[KL3] and Naturalism[KL4] ) to the north and for inspiring the strident social realism of artists like JP Jacobsen[KL5] and Henrik Ibsen[KL6]. An endorsement by Brandes opened up doors and for Strindberg, who was
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August Strindberg
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Johan August Strindberg (January 22, 1849 – May 14, 1912) was a Swedish writer, playwright, and painter. Along with Henrik Ibsen he is arguably the most influential and most important of all Scandinavian authors, along with Knut Hamsun, Henrik Ibsen, Søren Kierkegaard and Hans Christian Andersen. Strindberg is known as one of the fathers of modern theatre. His work falls into two major literary movements, Naturalism and Expressionism. He is noted for such works as A Dream Play (1901).
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Early years
Strindberg was the third son of Carl Oscar Strindberg, a shipping agent, and Ulrika Eleonora (Nora) Norling. Ulrika was twelve years Carl's junior and of humble origin, called a "domestic servant woman" by Strindberg. He used this expresion in the title of his autobiographical novel, Tjänstekvinnans son (The Son of a Servant). Strindberg's paternal grandfather Zacharias was born in 1758 to a clergyman in Jämtland and settled in Sto
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