What is life and what is its meaning? August Strindberg asked this question many times throughout his life. He questions humanexistence, good and evil, happiness and sorrow, from the beginning ofmans life until the end, in every thing he writes. He wrote novels,plays, poetry and over 7,000 letters. The collected works consists of 55volumes. Strindberg was known best for his expressionist plays that hehad made throughout his life. August Strindberg was born in Stockholm in 1849. Before he becamea writer he studied at Uppsala university and worked as a librarian anda journalist. In 1877 he married Siri Von Essen with whom he had threechildren, Karin, Greta and the son Hans. After twelve years they divorceand Strindberg, not feeling appreciated in Sweden, moves to centralEurope. After a couple of years of "artist life" with people like and he marries the young Austrian Frieda Uhl . After a stormy yeartravelling in Europe they divorce. Then for his third marriage HarrietBosse became his wife. But that marriage also ended in divorce. Historians say that the reason his plays are expressionistic is thatmost of them model his experiences in life. Strindberg was thought to be one of the greatest within worldliterature. He was the gentleman, a man of the world, who was polite andfriendly and knew how to behave in literary circles and other importantoccasions. But he could also turn his back on the world, when somethinghappened in his life and he detested everything and everybody. Strindberg's early works were mostly novels and plays they are stronglynaturalistic. They were written in to go against the widespreadromanticism that was in Swedish literature. Strindberg was an known asthe godfather of naturalist drama. He was so far ahead of his timethat he never really enjoyed the success that his talents deserved. People back then could not truly appreciate his writings, so thereforehe could not truly appreciate his success.At first h...
