August Strindberg

The Inferno (eBook, ePUB)

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

"The Inferno" is a play written by Swedish playwright August Strindberg in 1897. Unlike Dante Alighieri's famous work of the same name, Strindberg's "The Inferno" explores a psychological and existential descent into darkness. The play is a striking example of Strindberg's expressionist and symbolic style. Set in a bleak and surreal landscape, "The Inferno" follows the journey of its protagonist, who finds himself trapped in a nightmarish world filled with bizarre and nightmarish characters. As he descends deeper into this hellish realm, he confronts his own inner demons, fears, and desires. The play delves into themes of alienation, inner torment, and the human struggle for meaning and identity. Strindberg's "The Inferno" is a complex and enigmatic work that blurs the lines between reality and hallucination. It challenges traditional theatrical conventions and invites the audience to interpret its symbolic and psychological elements. The play's unsettling and thought-provoking narrative continues to captivate theatergoers and scholars, making it a significant contribution to the world of dramatic literature.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: True Sign Publishing House
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. Januar 2025
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9789359881393
• Artikelnr.: 73571099

Autorenporträt

Johan August Strindberg was a Swedish dramatist, novelist, poet, essayist, and painter. During his four-decade career, Strindberg created more than sixty plays and over thirty books of fiction, autobiography, history, cultural analysis, and politics, frequently drawing directly on his own experiences. He was a daring innovator and iconoclast who experimented with a variety of dramatic methods and objectives, including naturalistic tragedy, monodrama, and history plays, as well as his foreshadowing of expressionist and surrealist theatrical tactics. Strindberg pioneered new approaches to dramatic action, vocabulary, and visual composition beginning with his early work. In 1872, the Royal Theatre rejected his first major play, Master Olof; it was not until 1881, at the age of thirty-two, that its premiere at the New Theatre provided him with his theatrical breakthrough. In his plays The Father (1887), Miss Julie (1888), and Creditors (1889), he created naturalistic dramas that - building on the established accomplishments of Henrik Ibsen's prose problem plays while rejecting their use of the structure of the well-made play - responded to Emile Zola's manifesto "Naturalism in the Theatre" (1881) and the example set by André Antoine's newly established Théâtre Libre (opened 1887).