Innehåll #2 2012

The short pier running out into the Thames from the north Kent town of Gravesend was for many years home to a plaque marking one of the very few places in Britain ever visited by world-famous Swedish playwright August Strindberg. The plaque, removed during renovations, now languishes at the back of a crowded storeroom, but the man continues to fascinate and provoke us in equal measure, as this special issue shows. Charlotte Purkis has done fine detective work on the events of his 1949 centenary and his fan base at the time the plaque went up.
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Reading Map in Hand and Other Thoughts on Translating Strindberg
Peter Graves

Peter Graves is one of our outstanding translators who has spent a great deal of time in the company of Strindberg's texts. Here he presents his thoughts on translating Strindberg.


The New Kingdom
August Strindberg

Translated and Introduced by Peter Graves
Strindberg's acerbic observations on the power of the press in this extract, appearing in English for the first time, are vividly rendered by Peter Graves and have uncomfortable echoes in our own day.


Strindberg in My Life
Eivor Martinus

Translator Eivor Martinus, whose essay evokes a whole life coloured by her discovery of the playwright, reflects on why he never had the breakthrough here enjoyed by Ibsen or Chekhov. His unpredictability and lack of restraint, she has found, can unsettle both audiences and actors.


August Strindberg the Journalist
Agnes Broome

Strindberg constantly wrote for the press alongside his other work. Agnes Broome presents a portrait of Strindberg as a journalist.


Corresponding with Strindberg
Anna Paterson

Strindberg was a prolific lifelong correspondent. Anna Paterson looks at his highly personal and sometimes explosive letters.


The Artist as a Young Man: August Strindberg's 'I Rom' and the Celebration of a Centenary
Elettra Carbone

Elettra Carbone sheds light on the inspiration for Strindberg's very first drama, I Rom (In Rome).


The Commemoration of the Strindberg Centenary of 1949 in Britain
Charlotte Purkis

The short pier running out into the Thames from the north Kent town of Gravesend was for many years home to a plaque marking one of the very few places in Britain ever visited by world-famous Swedish playwright August Strindberg. The plaque, removed during renovations, now languishes at the back of a crowded storeroom, but the man continues to fascinate and provoke us in equal measure, as this special issue shows. Charlotte Purkis has done fine detective work on the events of his 1949 centenary and his fan base at the time the plaque went up.


'The Delayed Rays of a Star': Strindberg's Celestographs in the Light of 'Camera Lucida'
C Claire Thomson

Strindberg's scientific experiments may have been of dubious value, but in the field of early photography at least, as Claire Thomson demonstrates, he did thought-provoking work with his ‘celestographs’.


Strindberg illustrated: Fabian Göranson's graphic-novel version of 'Inferno'
Ruth Urbom

Translated and Introduced by Ruth Urbom
Who would have thought it? Strindberg is now big in the world of comic books, as Ruth Urbom's introduction to an extract from the graphic-novel version of Inferno reveals. A whole Paris exhibition on the subject was recently mounted in France.


Strindberg's One-Act Plays Mark One Hundred Years
Agnes Broome & Nichola Smalley

Since the beginning of the 2012 Strindberg centenary, a project has been underway to translate and publish four of Strindberg's one-act plays. These will be published in one volume by Norvik Press in the autumn of 2012 and accompanied by a series of Strindberg events to be held at University College London.


Reviews
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Maria Turtschaninoff, Arra. Legender från Lavora

Söderströms, 2009. ISBN:

Reviewed by Agnes Broome and Nichola Smalley



Maria Turtschaninoff, Underfors

Söderströms, 2010. ISBN:

Reviewed by Agnes Broome and Nichola Smalley



Isabella Nilsson, Verklighetsprojektet (The Reality Project)

X Publishing, 2011. ISBN:

Reviewed by Tuva Tod



Elin Nilsson, Istället för att bara skrika (Instead of Just Screaming)

Alfabeta, 2011. ISBN:

Reviewed by Kristina Sjögren



Cilla Naumann, 62 dagar (62 days)

Alfabeta, 2011. ISBN:

Reviewed by Kristina Sjögren



Jonatan Brännström, Blixtslukaren (The Lightning Gobbler)

Natur och kultur, 2012. ISBN:

Reviewed by Charlotte Berry



Malte Persson, Resan till världens farligaste land (The Journey to the Most Dangerous Land in the World)

Bonnier Carlsen, 2012. ISBN:

Reviewed by Anna Tebelius



Lars Gustafsson, Elden och döttrarna. Valda och nya dikter (The Fire and the Daughters. Selected and New Poems)

Atlantis, 2012. ISBN:

Reviewed by Carl Otto Werkelid



Sara Stridsberg, Medealand och andra pjäser (Medealand and Other Plays)

Albert Bonniers Förlag, 2012. ISBN:

Reviewed by Kevin Halliwell



Carl-Johan Vallgren, Havsmannen (The Merman)

Albert Bonniers Förlag, 2012. ISBN:

Reviewed by Birgitta Thompson



Lotta Lundberg, Ön (The Island)

Natur och kultur, 2012. ISBN:

Reviewed by Birgitta Thompson



Peter Handberg, Skuggor (Shadows)

Natur och kultur, 2012. ISBN:

Reviewed by Sarah Death



Set Mattson, Ondskans pris (The Price of Evil)

Historiska Media, 2012. ISBN:

Reviewed by Stephen Dawson



Michael Tapper, Snuten i skymningslandet. Svenska polisberättelser i roman och film 1965-2010 (The Cop in Land of Twilight. Swedish Police Narratives in Novels and Films 1965-2010)

Nordic Academic Press, 2011. ISBN:

Reviewed by Anna Paterson



Barry Forshaw, Death in a Cold Climate

Palgrave Macmillan, 2012. ISBN:

Reviewed by Charlotte Garbutt



Lukas Moodysson, Tolv månader i skugga (Twelve Months in Shadow)

Wahlström & Widstrand, 2012. ISBN:

Reviewed by Henning Koch



Sara Arrhenius and Magnus Berg (eds), Resan till månen (A Trip to the Moon)

Albert Bonniers Förlag, 2012. ISBN:

Reviewed by Henning Koch



Anne-Marie Påhlsson, Knapptryckarkompaniet. Rapport från Sveriges riksdag (The Button-Pressing Brigade. Report from the Swedish Parliament)

Atlantis, 2011. ISBN:

Reviewed by Anna Paterson



Per Molander, Kunskapen och makten. Om det offentliga beslutfattandets kunskapsförsörjning (The Knowledge and the Power. On public decision-making and the role of knowledge)

Atlantis, 2012. ISBN:

Reviewed by Anna Paterson



Niklas Orrenius, Sverige forever in my heart (Sweden forever in my heart)

Natur och kultur, 2012. ISBN:

Reviewed by Zeljka Cernok



Katrine Kielos, Det enda könet. Varför du är förförd av den ekonomiske mannen och hur det förstör ditt liv och världsekonomin (The Only Sex. Why you are seduced by the economic man and how it ruins your life and the world economy)

Albert Bonniers Förlag, 2012. ISBN:

Reviewed by B.J. Epstein



Erik Andersson, Dag ut och dag in med en dag i Dublin (Day In and Day Out with One Day in Dublin)

Albert Bonniers Förlag, 2012. ISBN:

Reviewed by Martin Murrell



Fredrik Sjöberg, Den Tranströmerska insektsamlingen (The Tranströmer Insect Collection)

Albert Bonniers Förlag, 2011. ISBN:

Reviewed by Anna Tebelius










Albert Bonniers Förlag, 2012. ISBN:

Reviewed by Martin Murrell



Fredrik Sjöberg, Den Tranströmerska insektsamlingen (The Tranströmer Insect Collection)

Albert Bonniers Förlag, 2011. ISBN:

Reviewed by Anna Tebelius










Publicerad: 2012-11-11

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