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Title: August Strindberg : the spirit of revolt : studies and impressions
Year: 1913 (1910s)
Authors: Lind-af-Hageby, L. (Lizzy), 1878-1963
Subjects: Strindberg, August, 1849-1912
Publisher: London : Stanley Paul
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Toronto

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ssion before which the flowers of satirewither. The Baron and the Baroness havedecided to separate, and proceedings for adeed of separation have been entered by thehusband. There is a link between them whichcannot be broken—the child whom they bothlove; and for his sake they are determined notto expose their differences before the hungryeyes of scandal-mongers. The husband iswilling to let the mother have the custody ofthe child. But the questions of the judgepierce the veneer of amiability. Who is thecause of dissension ? What has brought thembefore the Court ? The answers bring accusa-tions and recriminations, a parade of quarrelsand dissensions, angry revelations of infidelity,disgust, espionage, lies, hatred, and, when theCourt exercises its legal power of deprivingboth parents of the custody of the child,the torture of vain regret and empty lives.There is consummate art in the picture of theemotional revolution, through which husbandand wife are forced into self-damning revela-
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THE ARTIST 225 tions. The minor characters of the jurymenand court officials are drawn with a calmobservation and quiet humour which form aneffective background to its central tragicfigures. Incidentally, the inadequacy of thelaw to secure justice for the wronged is shown,and the lawyer in the play has some affinitywith the legal luminaries in M. Brieuxs LaRobe Rouge. But Strindbergs judge is arighteous man who chafes under the limita-tions and responsibilities of his profession. Those, whose knowledge of Strindbergswritings is limited to his naturalistic plays,have judged his powers as a literary artistfrom an entirely inadequate point of view.When Justin McCarthy spoke of the realStrindberg, as revealed in The Father, LadyJulie and Comrades, he ignored, not only thevolumes of essays, stories and novels whichpreceded the plays mentioned, but those whichwere published at the same time. Strindberghas been described as a man who had no in-terest to spare for social problems, or politics

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