Summer Reading and short course at UCB: Swedish Professor, Ulf Olsson on Strindberg
I am taking a very short course, "Wonderful and Bizarre: The works of August Strindberg. Having seen "Miss Julie" on the stage and in the film version and having read it, several times in the past, along with the drama "The Dance of Death" which has inspired music, plays and films, and also, "the Father". I had not read "The Ghost Sonatas" which were featured in this course, along with two essays and one article, all by Strindberg. Having visited Strindberg's last apartment in Stockholm, when I visited Sweden for one month, one lovely June, giving a paper on the comparative study of Emily Dickinson's poems set to music by the composers Aaron Copeland and John Adams, in Lund university, for an international interarts conference that was fascinating---- I was happy to have a chance to learn more, from a professor who has written a book on Strindberg, and is based at the University in Stockholm. Strindberg is not as familiar to m...