Strindberg: A Life

A mesmerizing account of the chaotic life and brilliant work of a playwright whose influence is undiminished 100 years after his death

Novelist, satirist, poet, photographer, painter, alchemist, and hellraiser—August Strindberg was all these, and yet he is principally known, in Arthur Miller's words, as "the mad inventor of modern theater" who led playwriting out of the polite drawing room into the snakepit of psychological warfare. This biography, supported by extensive new research, descr...