August Strindberg
Paperback | Pages: 104 pages Rating: 3.61 | 1627 Users | 114 Reviews
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| Original Title: | Fadren |
| ISBN: | 0486432173 (ISBN13: 9780486432175) |
| Edition Language: | English |
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The stormy personal life of the great Swedish dramatist August Strindberg was punctuated with duels between the sexes, with ruthless, aggressive women usurping the supposedly male prerogative of decision-making and leadership. More than in any of his other plays, Strindberg explores this theme in depth in The Father.In exploring the emotionally charged battle of the sexes and the clashes between scientific and religious convictions, The Father vividly delineates the essential quality of a man’s relationship with his wife and his daughter. The problem of paternity, trivial at the outset, develops into marital upheaval and a no-holds-barred struggle between man and woman.
Widely regarded as one of Strindberg's best literary efforts, The Father remains one of the most gripping psychological dramas of the theater.
Itemize About Books The Father
| Title | : | The Father |
| Author | : | August Strindberg |
| Book Format | : | Paperback |
| Book Edition | : | First Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 104 pages |
| Published | : | September 18th 2003 by Dover Publications (first published 1887) |
| Categories | : | Plays. Drama. Classics. Theatre. European Literature. Swedish Literature. Fiction. Scandinavian Literature |
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Ratings: 3.61 From 1627 Users | 114 ReviewsNotice About Books The Father
Unlike Ibsen, unsophisticated. Strindberg reacts against the feminist lessons of Ibsen's A Doll's House. Since he saw himself as a Kafka-esque victim of his wife and mistresses, he wrote this play. It's not very pleasant to read, and unlike Kafka there is little pity felt for the protagonist or the supporting characters. This fact, and the dialogue, may be modern/post-modern and a little amusing. But the it reads like a weak self defense and for example the oddly mundane 3 or 4 references toDo women really have the power to drive men mad?Once the captain decides that his only daughter would study abroad, he considers it a done deal. After all, children belong to their fathers. Heck, a woman gives up all her rights through marriage. But his wife has a different view. "What makes you or any other man think that their child is really theirs?" (mind you, paternity tests didn't exist back in 1887). After the idea gets planted in his head, the captain is doomed. All one has to do is wait
Because the child bound us together; but the link became a chain.August Strindberg's maudlin and painful "The Father" is a beautifully written play about a Captain who gets sent to madness from a manipulative wife who wants her kid to attend a Christian school and not some free-thinking atheist one and goes through each clever step she's capable of to achieve her goal. This is before the time science could decide who the father of a child is, so much of the drama, the character's eventual
I read August Strindbergs The Father and my first thought was I like Ibsen more and --simultaneously -- what a vile woman! combined to: I like Strindbergs paintings more.(You know how thoughts come interweaved.)I needed to check my first impulse (were talking about a classic here) so I read a few --a lot-- more of Strindbergs plays and its a fact: the man doesnt hold his punches when it comes to women. The pattern of either villainous or controlling women forms into a misogyny that is evident in
CAPTAIN: Yes. She has children; but he doesn't.- What are you getting at? Feminism, women's emancipation, Ibsenism?... We- all of us- lived our little lives, unconscious as children, full of ideals, illusions, delusions. And then we woek up. Right enough, we woke up and turned round, with our feet on the pillow, and he who woke us was himself walking in his sleep. Reading Strindberg's works sometimes makes me kind of uncomfortable, mainly because he's a polar opposite of Ibsen, who I like a lot.
I read this at University (U of Wisconsin) for a fantastic undergraduate course called Scandinavian Literature in Translation. There were hundreds of people in this class, but I adored it. I remember very little of this play, and so I think I ought to reread it.
Wo, how do we pass this life on earth?In work and pain from the time of birth.It's hardship even when life is bestAnd the most to hope for is to stand the test."This is my first taste of Strindberg and I was not in the least disappointed. I have had Miss Julie on my to-read shelf for a while, but my interest in Strindberg grew immensely after reading Ingmar Bergman's autobiography The Magic Lantern, in which Bergman makes his great admiration of Strindberg's art very apparent (the "gloominess
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