The worlds of August Strindberg

This is the first comprehensive photographic biography of Sweden’s most influential author and playwright. Through fifteen chapters we follow Strindberg’s life and creative processes, his encounters with loves, friends and enemies, and his extensive travels round Europe. Björn Meidal’s learned but accessible text is laced with humour as he describes Strindberg’s career, extravagant personality and multi-faceted body of work. More than five hundred contemporary photographs allow the reader to step right into Strindberg’s time.