Living alone in the Hôtel Orfila in Paris, Strindberg conducts alchemical experiments, reads signs in rainstorms and chance encounters, believes himself pursued by enemies and invisible powers, and passes through what he calls paradise regained, the fall and purgatory. His journal records the crisis with unsettling precision, as he moves from atheism toward belief in a punishing God.
One of literature’s most extraordinary self-portraits of a mind near breaking. Download the free EPUB.