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The Road to Damascus By August Strindberg

The Road to Damascus

By August Strindberg

  • Release Date: 2014-01-23
  • Genre: Theater
  • $2.99
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Excerpt:
FIRST MOURNER. A house-breaker's. (He imitates the ticking of a clock.)
STRANGER. A real house-breaker? Or the insect sort, that lodges in the
woodwork and goes 'tick-tick'?
FIRST MOURNER. Both--but mainly the insect sort. What do they call them?
STRANGER (to himself). He wants to fool me into saying the death-watch
beetle. So I won't. You mean a burglar?
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About Author:
Johan August Strindberg (22 January 1849 – 14 May 1912) was a Swedish playwright, novelist, poet, essayist and painter. A prolific writer who often drew directly on his personal experience, Strindberg's career spanned four decades, during which time he wrote over 60 plays and more than 30 works of fiction, autobiography, history, cultural analysis, and politics. A bold experimenter and iconoclast throughout, he explored a wide range of dramatic methods and purposes, from naturalistic tragedy, monodrama, and history plays, to his anticipations of expressionist and surrealist dramatic techniques. From his earliest work, Strindberg developed forms of dramatic action, language, and visual composition so innovative that many were to become technically possible to stage only with the advent of film. He is considered the "father" of modern Swedish literature and his The Red Room (1879) has frequently been described as the first modern Swedish novel.

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