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Updated: May 28, 2025
Garnett tells us, were: "Live and love others as I have always loved them." The mirror that Strindberg held up to Nature was a cracked one. It was cracked in a double sense it was crazy. It gave back broken images of a world which it made look like the chaos of a lunatic dream.
Other artists lay hold upon life through an exceptional sensibility. Strindberg laid hold on life through an exceptional excitability even an exceptional irritability. In his plays, novels, and essays alike, he is a specialist in the jars of existence. He magnified even the smallest worries until they assumed mountainous proportions.
This course was officially announced as a study of Bernard Shaw, Ibsen, Strindberg, Pinero, Hauptmann, Sudermann, Maeterlinck, D'Annunzio, and Rostand; but unofficially announced by Professor Frazer as an attempt to follow the spirit of to-day wherever it should be found in contemporary literature. Carl and the Turk were bewildered but staunchly enthusiastic disciples of the course.
If Dostoevsky had had less vision he would have been Strindberg. If his vision had been aesthetic and sensual, he might have been D'Annunzio. Like them, he is a novelist of torture. Turgenev found in his work something Sadistic, because of the intensity with which he dwells on cruelty and pain.
Once an exception he had succumbed to the charms of an actress who essayed characters in the dumps Ibsen soubrettes, Strindberg servants, and Máxim Górky tramps. Yet he had, somehow or other, emerged heart whole from his adventures among those masterpieces of the cosmos women. Certainly this might be another romance added to the long list of his sentimental fractures.
Fancy finding the contes of August Strindberg, the dramatist, that genius of subtle perception and abysmal gloom, here in this forsaken place. Hollister fluttered the pages. Writing on the flyleaf caught his eye.
There is method in the madness, but it is a method of intangible ideas. 12mo. $1.50 net CONTENTS: Henrik Ibsen August Strindberg Henry Becque Gerhart Hauptmann Paul Hervieu The Quintessence of Shaw Maxim Gorky's Nachtasyl Hermann Sudennann Princess Mathilde's Play Duse and D'Annunzio Villiers de l'lsle Adam Maurice Maeterlinck.
Like Octave Mirbeau, he faces the music of facts, and there are none too abhorrent that he doesn't transform into something significant. On the technical side Strindberg has taught him much; he prefers the one-act form, or a series of loosely joined episodes. Formally he is not a master, nor despite his versatility is he objective.
This story, by virtue of its romance, finds a place in these pages; but, save for its tragic ending, it hardly stands alone. Ballooning enterprise and adventure were growing every year more and more common on the Continent. In Scandinavia we find the names of Andree, Fraenkal, and Strindberg; in Denmark that of Captain Rambusch.
Strindberg deliberately wrote those words on his banner and held them aloft to his generation as the summary of an eternal gospel. Miss Lind-af-Hageby tells us that, at one period of his life, he was sufficiently free from the physical obsessions of sex to preach the equality of men and women and even to herald the coming of woman suffrage.
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