A young librarian in Stockholm falls in love with Maria, a married baroness with dreams of the stage, and steals her from her husband. Their marriage turns into a long, jealous struggle as he suspects betrayal everywhere and she pursues her career. Strindberg drew it closely from his own life with Siri von Essen.
A ferocious, unsparing self-portrait that illuminates Strindberg’s plays of marital war; frank about misogyny it does not escape. Download the free EPUB.