Torches for Superman
Raymond Williams, 21 November 1985
By the Open Sea
by August Strindberg, translated by Mary Sandbach.
Secker, 193 pp., £8.95, October 1984,0 436 50008 6 Show More
by August Strindberg, translated by Mary Sandbach.
Secker, 193 pp., £8.95, October 1984,
August Strindberg
by Olof Lagercrantz, translated by Anselm Hollo.
Faber, 399 pp., £20, September 1984,0 571 11812 7 Show More
by Olof Lagercrantz, translated by Anselm Hollo.
Faber, 399 pp., £20, September 1984,
Strindberg: A Biography
by Michael Meyer.
Secker, 651 pp., £25, October 1985,0 436 27852 9 Show More
by Michael Meyer.
Secker, 651 pp., £25, October 1985,
“... Who carried a torch for August Strindberg? On his 63rd, and last, birthday, some ten thousand people, led by the Stockholm Workers’ Commune with bands and red union banners, marched past the apartment that he called the Blue Tower, after the name of a Danish prison. The ‘Marseillaise’ and ‘other anthems of liberation’ were sung. There were cheers for ‘the People’s Strindberg’ and ‘the King of Poets ... ”
