EBOOK THE ROAD TO DAMASCUS ***
Produced by Nicole Apostola
AUGUST STRINDBERG
THE ROAD TO DAMASCUS
A TRILOGY
ENGLISH VERSION BY GRAHAM RAWSON
WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY GUNNAR OLLEN
CONTENTS
INTRODUCTION
PART ONE
PART TWO
PART THREE
INTRODUCTION
Strindberg's great trilogy _The Road to Damascus_ presents many
mysteries to the uninitiated. Its peculiar changes of mood, its
gallery of half unreal characters, its bizarre episodes combine to
make it a bewilderingly rich but rather 'difficult' work. It cannot
be recommended to the lover of light drama or the seeker of
momentary distraction. _The Road to Damascus_ does not deal with
the superficial strata of human life, but probes into those depths
where the problems of God, and death, and eternity become
terrifying realities.
Many authors have, of course, dealt with the profoundest problems
of humanity without, on that account, having been able to evoke our
interest. There may have been too much philosophy and too little
art in the presentation of the subject, too little reality and too
much soaring into the heights. That is not so with Strindberg's
drama. It is a trenchant settling of accounts between a complex and
fascinating individual--the author--and his past, and the realistic
scenes have often been transplanted in detail from his own
changeful life.
In order fully to understand _The Road to Damascus_ it is therefore
essential to know at least the most important features of that
background of real life, out of which the drama has grown.
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