The defence of a madman
By: by August Strindberg ; translated from the French with a translators' afterword by Carol Sanders and Janet Garton ; introduction by Anna Westerståhl Stenport
Contributors: Sanders, Carol, writer of afterword; Garton, Janet, writer of afterword
Publisher: Norvik Press, Department of Scandinavian Studies, University College
Published: 2014
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 318
ISBN-13: 9781909408159
Subjects: Swedish Dramatists; Biography
Work titles: Plaidoyer d'un fou
Description: "This autobiographical novel is based on Strindberg's life in the 1870s and 1880s, and focuses on his marriage to Siri von Essen. It purports to be a vehicle for explaining to himself his role in the relationship from its ecstatic beginnings to its catastrophic conclusion. Strindberg was writing at the time of the modern women's movement and the intense Nordic debate on sexual morality, and the novel echoes on an anguished personal level the theme of the battle of the sexes. It is one of his many and varied attempts to write his own life, to use himself as raw material." --Back cover.
Notes: Originally published as Le Plaidoyer d'un fou in 1895.

Includes bibliographical references (page 314).