{"product_id":"the-road-to-damascus-paperback-1","title":"The road to Damascus - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eAugust Strindberg\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eINTRODUCTION Strindberg's great trilogy The Road to Damascus presents many mysteries to the uninitiated. Its peculiar changes of mood, its gallery of half unreal characters, its bizarre episodes combine to make it a bewilderingly rich but rather 'difficult' work. It cannot be recommended to the lover of light drama or the seeker of momentary distraction. The Road to Damascus does not deal with the superficial strata of human life, but probes into those depths where the problems of God, and death, and eternity become terrifying realities. Many authors have, of course, dealt with the profoundest problems of humanity without, on that account, having been able to evoke our interest. There may have been too much philosophy and too little art in the presentation of the subject, too little reality and too much soaring into the heights. That is not so with Strindberg's drama. It is a trenchant settling of accounts between a complex and fascinating individual-the author-and his past, and the realistic scenes have often been transplanted in detail from his own changeful life. In order fully to understand The Road to Damascus it is therefore essential to know at least the most important features of that background of real life, out of which the drama has grown. Parts I and II of the trilogy were written in 1898, while Part III was added somewhat later, in the years 1900-1901. In 1898 Strindberg had only half emerged from what was by far the severest of the many crises through which in his troubled life he had to pass. He had overcome the worst period of terror, which had brought him dangerously near the borders of sanity, and he felt as if he could again open his eyes and breathe freely. He was not free from that nervous pressure under which he had been working, but the worst of the inner tension had relaxed and he felt the need of taking a survey of what had happened, of summarising and trying to fathom what could have been underlying his apparently unaccountable experiences. The literary outcome of this settling of accounts with the past was The Road to Damascus.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eJohan August Strindberg n? le 22 janvier 1849 ? Stockholm, mort le 14 mai 1912 ? Stockholm, est un ?crivain, dramaturge et peintre su?dois. Il fait partie des auteurs su?dois les plus importants et est un des p?res du th??tre moderne. Ses oeuvres se classent parmi deux courants litt?raires majeurs, le naturalisme et l'expressionnisme. August Strindberg est le quatri?me des huit enfants de Carl Oscar Strindberg, agent d'un armateur, et de son ?pouse, n?e Ulrika Eleonora (Nora) Norling, ancienne domestique de la maison paternelle. August Strindberg est marqu? par une enfance instable qui oscille entre n?gligence et ferveur religieuse, et par les d?m?nagements fr?quents (dix fois jusqu'? l'?ge de vingt ans). Il commence l'?cole dans un ?tablissement dont la s?v?rit? le hantera longtemps, puis poursuit ses ?tudes ? partir de 1861 dans un lyc?e (Stockholms Lyceum) priv? de Stockholm d'esprit lib?ral. Il est particuli?rement dou? en fran?ais et en sciences naturelles. Sa m?re meurt de tuberculose en 1862 et son p?re, avec lequel il entretient des relations difficiles, se remarie avec la gouvernante des enfants, Emma Charlotta Peterson dont il a un fils, Emil. L'adolescent se r?fugie dans le pi?tisme. Avant de devenir ?crivain, alors qu'il est encore ?tudiant, il travaille comme assistant dans un atelier de chimie ? l'universit? de Lund au sud-ouest de la Su?de. Il est ?galement peintre, photographe et t?l?graphiste. Il a ?t? mari? ? trois reprises, mais son caract?re hypersensible, voire n?vros? a conduit chacune de ses unions au divorce. Il s'est mari? la premi?re fois avec l'actrice Siri von Essen (1850-1912) en 1877, elle-m?me divorc?e du baron Carl Gustaf von Wrangel. Deux filles, Karin (1880) et Greta (1881), et un fils, Hans (1884) sont n?s de cette union. Les ?poux se s?parent en 1891. Il fait la connaissance en 1893 de la jeune journaliste Frida Uhl (1872-1943), ?g?e de vingt ans, qu'il ?pouse quelques mois plus tard et avec qui il vit au ch?teau de Dornach (propri?t? des grands-parents de la jeune femme) pendant le reste de l'ann?e. Elle lui donne une fille, Kerstin, en 1894. Il s?journe ? Versailles pendant l'automne 1894 et au Petit-Quevilly en 1895. Leur divorce a lieu en 1897, ? cause de la liaison que Frida Strindberg entretient avec Frank Wedekind. Strindberg traverse une grave crise psychique. Son troisi?me mariage a lieu en 1901 avec la jeune artiste Harriet Bosse (1878-1961) dont il a fait la connaissance quelques mois auparavant.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 298\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.62 x 9.02 x 5.98 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e July 29, 2015\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47510191014137,"sku":"9781515277491","price":27.47,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0789\/2782\/3097\/files\/0ILKB50_Wa9781515277491.webp?v=1773384985","url":"https:\/\/bookscloud.io\/products\/the-road-to-damascus-paperback-1","provider":"BooksCloud Book Dropshipping","version":"1.0","type":"link"}