A critical reader on August Strindberg, gathering essays that approach him as the strange, unstable engine he actually was: playwright, novelist, autobiographer, misogynist, occult experimenter, psychological anatomist, and professional detonator of bourgeois interiors.

The included essays move through his major plays and recurring obsessions — gender warfare, spiritual crisis, realism, expressionism, rebellion, theatrical form, and the brutality of domestic life.

Edited by Otto Reinert for Prentice-Hall’s Twentieth Century Views series, this is very much a mid-century academic object: compact, serious, useful, and slightly severe in that excellent old paperback way. A good copy for anyone reading Strindberg alongside Ibsen, Chekhov, Wedekind, early modern theatre, expressionism, psychoanalytic drama, or the long history of men having visionary breakdowns and then calling it literature. 

Paperback. Prentice-Hall / Twentieth Century Views series, 1971; edited by Otto Reinert. Visible rubbing, shelf wear and creasing to covers and edges; internally appears clean from photos, with age-toned pages.