Excerpt from Strindberg and His Plays
August Strindberg - the greatest dramatist of his generation, the most tragic figure in modern literature - was a man who was hounded all his life by gods and by devils who had the faces of women - a tragic man.
First of all I shall try to show what kind of a man he was - what he looked like - as he went the way of life. For the Great Truth is this: Every man is exactly what he looks!
It was in the later nineties and the early part of this century, that I knew Strindberg. Those were the years when he walked in the shadow. A few years before he had known glory - he had stood, like a statue in a public square, with the light and crowd all around him. His plays held the theatres of Paris - three of them at one time.
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