A Cook's Tour of Strindberg Scholarship
| Autor: | Richard B. Vowles |
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| Rok vydání: | 1962 |
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| Zdroj: | Modern Drama. 5:256-268 |
| ISSN: | 1712-5286 0026-7694 |
| DOI: | 10.3138/md.5.3.256 |
| Popis: | THE IMAGE OF STRINDBERG is blurred abroad. Outside of Sweden the myths of Strindberg are still scattered about the literary landscape like so many Easter Island effigies, a little absurd in their distortion and ponderous inscrutability. "Bedeviled Viking," "Shakespeare of the North," "mad misogynist," "psychopathic Don Quixote of the bedroom." In one of the most recent studies, so notable a critic as F. L. Lucas finds that the "warped and poisoned personality" of Strindberg (p. 461)1 lies somewhere between Narcissus and Nazi Sturmführer (p. 407). To him The Father seems "more squalid and revolting than tragic" (p. 358) and the later works are not so much dream plays as "scream plays." In short, confronted with the personality of Strindberg, Mr. Lucas doubts "if a more fantastic biped has walked the earth since the days of the pterodactyl" (p. 305). |
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