Strindberg and Fiction

by Rossholm, Goran; Sjonell, Barbro Stahle; Westin, Boel

• ISBN13: 9789122019336
• ISBN10: 9122019332
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2001-12-01
• Publisher: Coronet Books Inc

Summary

August Strindberg's attitudes toward fact and fiction are complicated and variable. As a naturalistic writer he repudiates 'the literature of construction.' During his whole career he frequently transforms history into literature, into prose narrative, into drama. At the same time, Strindberg's ambition to create fiction is so evident that some scholars have analyzed the life pictured in his autobiographical works as fictional role-play. In his late writings, the relationship between fact and fiction is made more complex by the view of life expressed in these works; i.e., that the reality which we experience is nothing but appearance and illusion. This book, edited by three Strindberg scholars at Stockholm University, contains twenty-four essays presented at the XIVth International Strindberg Conference 'Strindberg and Fiction' in Stockholm, 1999.

Table of Contents

Preface	7	(4)
History
Strindberg and the Fiction of History	11	(12)
Inga-Stina Ewbank
Strindberg on World History	23	(10)
Conny Svensson
Performance
Questions without Answers? An aspect of Strindberg's drama dialogue	33	(8)
Egil Tornqvist
Fadren in Production Blending fiction with reality in the play and on the stage	41	(7)
Irina Tsimbal
Fiction and Reality in Dodsdansen I A Polish perspective (1917-1998)	48	(11)
Lech Sokol
Life as text
Defining Strindberg's Prose Fiction	59	(8)
Lisa Teruel
Dichtung oder Wahrheit? An analysis of some letters of August Strindberg	67	(19)
Elena Balzamo
In Cover of Reality The `scandalous text' of the eighties	86	(11)
David Gedin
August Strindberg's Inferno and the Absence of the Work	97	(8)
Piotr Bukowski
Strindberg's Ockulta dagboken	105	(11)
Karin Petherick
Strindberg in Rome	116	(13)
Margareta Wirmark
Genre
Strindberg in Wonderland Reflections on Sagor	129	(13)
Eric Svendsen
Tschandala Compared to some Works by Poe	142	(9)
Mattias Fyhr
Names in Strindberg's Fiction	151	(8)
Per Nilsson
Technology
Strindberg on the Phone	159	(10)
Karin Marie Svenmo
The World through a Panorama Lens Strindberg on vision and visual technologies	169	(14)
Vreni Hockenjos
Telescoping August: Photography and Simultaneity	183	(10)
Mats Bjorkin
Text as life
The Madness of Fiction Psychiatry and narrative in Strindberg's Fadren	193	(10)
Ulf Olsson
Is not the Truth the Truth?	203	(9)
Eivor Martinus
The Power of Instinct Strindberg and the Austrian racist Lanz-Liebenfels	212	(14)
Friedrich Buchmayr
Sailing with Borg The making of an author concept in literary interpretations of I havsbandet	226	(11)
Sigrid Ekblad
`Guds osynliga tjanare ga omkring oss' Contrastive pictures of reality in En bla bok I-IV	237	(10)
Sophie Grimal-Robert
Fore/shadows of the Postmodern Strindberg's Ett dromspel	247	(10)
Christopher Mitchell
Growing Castles	257	(18)
Eszter Szalczer
The Edition of August Strindberg's Collected Works	275	(4)
The Authors	279	(2)
Index	281	(6)
Abbreviations	287