1 option
Tschandala : a novella / by August Strindberg ; translated from the Swedish and with an introduction by Peter Graves.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Strindberg, August, 1849-1912.
- Standardized Title:
- Tschandala. English
- Language:
- Danish
- English
- Swedish
- Genre:
- Fiction.
- Physical Description:
- 133 pages ; 20 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Norwich : Norvik Press ; [Charles Spring, PA] : U.S. Distributor Dufour Editions, 2007.
- Summary:
- August Strindberg (1849-1912) is best known internationally as Sweden's greatest dramatist. Less well known outside Sweden is the range of his other writings--novels, short stories, essays, journalism, and poetry. This novella, translated into English here for the first time, was written in the autumn of 1888. Set in the 1690s, in a province of Sweden recently annexed from Denmark, the novella tells the story of Andeas Torner, a Swedish academic who finds himself spending the summer holiday with his family at the manor house of an eccentric gypsy. A conflict arises in which Torner must resort to despicable deeds to renounce the gypsy. Strindberg. in parading his prejudices so nakedly, is simultaneously revealing many of the aspects of his age that would lead to tragic consequences in the century that followed.
- Notes:
- Distributor from label on back cover.
- Includes bibliographical references.
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Department of Germanic Languages Book Fund.
- ISBN:
- 9781870041713
- 1870041712
- OCLC:
- 156822317
The Penn Libraries is committed to describing library materials using current, accurate, and responsible language. If you discover outdated or inaccurate language, please fill out this feedback form to report it and suggest alternative language.