Maurice, a struggling dramatist in Paris, is on the brink of success and of leaving with the seductive Henriette, when a careless wish against his little daughter seems to come true. Suspicion, guilt and the question of whether a thought can be a crime work through a comedy that turns very dark.
Written in 1899 after Strindberg’s Inferno crisis, here in Edwin Björkman’s translation with an illuminating introduction. Download the free EPUB.