A Dream Play
Important literary precursors of modernism were Fyodor Dostoyevsky (1821–81) ("Crime and Punishment" (1866), "The Brothers Karamazov" (1880)); Walt Whitman (1819–92) ("Leaves of Grass") (1855–91); Charles Baudelaire (1821–67) ("Les Fleurs du mal"), Rimbaud (1854–91) ("Illuminations", 1874); Knut Hamsun (1859-1952) ("Hunger", 1890); August Strindberg (1849–1912), especially his later plays, including the trilogy "To Damascus" 1898–1901, "A Dream Play" (1902), "The Ghost Sonata" (1907).