A pretty woman once told me to read Strindberg, so I read Strindberg…
A pretty woman once told me to read Strindberg, so I read Strindberg. Sometimes that’s all it takes. She was at the time reading “Ensam”, stolen from her father’s book collection if I remember correctly. Ensam or “Lonely”, sometimes wrongly translated as “alone”, describes August Strindberg’s “Inferno crisis”. A period of about a year in which the author decides to rid himself of his friends and live life in solitude. He hopes to achieve mental independence, as he feels that living together with other people forces a man to be untrue. (…)