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Strindberg and Love (Hardcover)

by Eivor Martinus (Author)
4.5 out of 5 stars See all reviews (2 customer reviews)

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  • Hardcover: 320 pages
  • Publisher: Amber Lane Press Ltd (27 Sep 2001)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 1872868339
  • ISBN-13: 978-1872868332
  • Product Dimensions: 23.6 x 15.7 x 3.6 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 977,966 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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7 of 7 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars A truly excellent comprehensive biography., 11 May 2002
By stomberg@myexcel.com (St. Andrews, Scotland) - See all my reviews
If you want to have a good read and learn a bit about one of Sweden's most famous playwrights you
must read "Strindberg and Love" by Eivor Martinus
(published by Amber Lane Press, Charlbury, Oxford)

August Strindberg (1849-1912) was one of the world's most prolific dramatists.

"Strindberg and Love" draws on new translations of
letters, diaries, poetry and plays, and explores the often direct relationship between Strindberg's turbulent romantic and sexual life and his literary output.

The biography reveals a complex and sympathetic man moved, by sensitivity and passion. The book also presents a cast of remarkable independent women in Strindberg's life - Siri von Essen, Frida Uhl, Harriet Bosse and Fanny Falkner - fully
acknowledging their contributions to the history of European drama. Dag Stomberg

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4.0 out of 5 stars A loving potrait of a not so loving man, or?, 29 April 2009
I've been obsessed with Strindberg since I had to study his plays at school in Finland. Having lived in Sweden as a child my language skills were beyond those required by the curriculum and so my Swedish teacher decided that I should not only achieve a good mark in my Swedish Baccalaureate, but should learn something new. She set about encouraging me to write an essay on Strindberg. For a teenage girl the Swedish playwright was not an easy subject. The prolific, socially critical and revolutionary writer, who died in 1912, was generally known as a misogynist. Eivor Martinus' motivation for Strindberg and Love is to try to refute this allegation. Strindberg's three marriages and a last engagement to a fourth, young actress Fanny Falkner, may suggest otherwise.
Martinus describes the writer from the point of view of his wives. She tries and succeeds in describing a passionate author living in a time with dramatic social change with fond detachment. Many of the sources the author has available to her are by Strindberg himself, which makes her task even more difficult. He had a tendency towards long periods of depression, often triggered by the end of an affair, or marriage. To combat these bouts of what I'm sure in today's world would be diagnosed as bipolar episodes, he often retreated to writing. The resulting novels were putrid, hostile, egoistic accounts of the previous relationships. But as Martinus points out, he made notes in his diary to remember not to let anyone see the writing; especially a new object of his love. Economic realities, however, often intervened and time and time again Strindberg had to sell the poisonous manuscripts to his publisher to keep himself in food and wine.
Martinus account of Strindberg is vivid, the writing is excellent, and the reader finds it easy to follow the loves and lives of the great writer without feeling she is reading a boring biography. I was sad to come to the end of the book. I felt that the women in his life and Strindberg were loved by each other as well as by the author.

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