Word: life
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...STRANGE LIFE OF AUGUST STRINDBERG (246 pp.)-Elizabeth Sprigge-. Macmillan...
...strange life, recorded with more care than brilliance by Biographer Sprigge, unfolds much like a Strindberg play, except for an occasional redeeming touch of the ridiculous...
...shipping agent and a servant girl; his dominant childhood memories were the sound of nearby church bells and a gnawing fear of practically everything. He violently loved his mother, described his feelings as "incest of the soul." Yet, as with almost all the women in his life, his love for her was tinged with jealousy and hate. When she died and his father married the family housekeeper, he cast himself in the role of Hamlet...
Many commentators on Strindberg have found everything from surrealism to schizophrenia in his life & work. But he was, after all, just a son of the quiet old 19th Century...
...Notaplace, get it?" he chuckled to his wife Eva-though with a sinking heart, because he knew that poor Eva, whose life depended on a well-ordered battery of labor-saving devices, was probably not going to relish the simple life of Utopia one bit. Only what she and Joe took to be the advancing shadow of World War III had scared her into agreeing to pull up her bourgeois roots and join him in the new colony being formed on a New England mountaintop...