JSTOR

August Strindberg: The Occult Diary, Paris 1896 � Stockholm 1908

Author

Engwall; Gunnel ; Stam; Per ; Adams; Ann-Charlotte Gavel

Year

2022

Publisher

Stockholm University Press

Language

English

Pages

21

ISBN

978-9-17635-196-3

Link

Last Update

02-Nov-2024

Keywords

Philosophy ; Religion

Description

August Strindberg (1849–1912) was an extraordinarily prolific writer whose collected works encompass no fewer than 72 volumes of drama, prose and poetry as well as 22 volumes of letters.¹ In this extensive literary production, The Occult Diary occupies a unique and central position.

Strindberg kept the diary from February 1896, when he moved into the Hotel Orfila in Paris, until the summer of 1908 in Stockholm, when he definitively broke off contact with his third wife, Harriet Bosse, and moved into a new apartment at Drottninggatan 85. He himself referred to his diary from this period as his Occult...

Related

See More