ABSTRACT

With the report on August Strindberg by his second wife, yet another volume has been added to his “autobiographies.” Even though this recent publication stems only in part from his own pen—the letters that are included in the text—Frida Strindberg constructed her memoir in such a way that it can be considered the work of one of Strindberg’s students, if not, indeed, a minor accomplishment of the writer himself. This is why the book reads, like all of his autobiographies do, as though Strindberg were defending his own position under a different name.