Research Catalog

Title

The defence of a madman / by August Strindberg ; translated from the French with a translators' afterword by Carol Sanders and Janet Garton ; introduction by Anna Westerståhl Stenport.

Author

Strindberg, August, 1849-1912

Publication

• London : Norvik Press, Department of Scandinavian Studies, University College, 2014.
• Chester Springs, Pennsylvania : Dufour Editions.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Sanders, Carol
• Garton, Janet

Description

318 pages : portraits, facsimiles; 20 cm.

Summary

"This autobiographical novel is based on Strindberg's life in the 1870s and 1880s, and focuses on his marriage to Siri von Essen. It purports to be a vehicle for explaining to himself his role in the relationship from its ecstatic beginnings to its catastrophic conclusion. Strindberg was writing at the time of the modern women's movement and the intense Nordic debate on sexual morality, and the novel echoes on an anguished personal level the theme of the battle of the sexes. It is one of his many and varied attempts to write his own life, to use himself as raw material." --Back cover.

Series Statement

Series B:English Translations of Scandinavian Literature ; no. 61

Uniform Title

• Plaidoyer d'un fou. English
• Series B (Norvik Press) no. 61.

Alternative Title

Plaidoyer d'un fou.

Subject

• Strindberg, August, 1849-1912
• Dramatists, Swedish > Biography

Genre/Form

• Autobiographical fiction, Swedish.
• Biographies

Note

• Originally published as Le Plaidoyer d'un fou in 1895.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (page 314).

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Machine generated contents note: The Defence of a Madman -- Author's Preface (1894) -- Preface (1887) -- Overture -- Part I -- Part II -- Part III -- Part IV.

ISBN

• 9781909408159
• 1909408158

OCLC

• 907929725
• SCSB-10831735

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library