August Strindberg

Swedish writer August Strinberg played a major role in introducing a more modernist sensibility into his native country's literature, producing several major novels and plays that are still regarded as some of the most significant works of twentieth-century Swedish literature.

In Miss Julie, a willful young aristocrat, whose perverse nature has already driven her fiancé to break off their engagement, pursues and effectively seduces her father's valet during the course of a Midsummer's Eve celebration. The progress of that seduction and the play's stunning denouement shocked Swedish audiences who first attended the play in 1889. Despite its controversial debut, this now-classic drama, inspired by the new ideas of naturalism...

"In his electrifying new adaptation of August Strindberg's Miss Julie, Neil LaBute, provocateur of the theater as much as Strindberg himself, transports the classic play of power, class and seduction to an estate on Long Island's Gold Coast just before the stock market crash of 1929. Against a glittering jazz-age backdrop, mistress of the house Julie and ambitious servant John face off in a gripping, night-long encounter. As the balance of power shifts...

"Hace cien años moría en Estocolmo uno de los artistas más importantes de la literatura nórdica. A su entierro acudieron sesenta de los trescientos mil habitantes que tenía la ciudad en aquella época. August Strindberg es conocido fundamentalmente por sus obras dramáticas y por algunas de sus narraciones. También fue un pode roso poeta, como lo demuestran algunos de los poemas que incluimos en ese libro, que reúne fragmentos de muchas de...

A wealthy aristocrat and her father's valet's innocent flirtation turns into a heated and dangerous affair that tests the boundaries of class and desire.