Inferno
by August Strindberg
Swedish • Public Domain • Free to stream
Strindberg's autobiographical descent into madness. Paranoia, alchemy and spiritual crisis in 1890s Paris — a raw, hallucinatory memoir by one of Sweden's greatest writers.
About the book: Inferno
Inferno is an autobiographical novel written in French at the height of the author's troubles with both censors and women. The book is an elaborated and expanded extract of a daily journal kept since 1895.
The novel is concerned with the author's life both in and after living in Paris, isolated from his wife, children, and friends. It explores various obsessions, including alchemy, occultism, and Swedenborgianism, while showing signs of paranoia and neuroticism. The narrator sees his life as a living hell, which explains the title of the work.
Evidence suggests that the author, although experiencing mild neurotic symptoms, both invented and exaggerated much of the material in the book for dramatic effect.
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Who wrote Inferno?
Inferno was written by August Strindberg.
Is Inferno in the public domain?
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How long is Inferno to listen to?
Inferno takes approximately 2 hours to listen to in full.
When was Inferno written?
Inferno was first published in 1897. It is now in the public domain and free to stream.
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Inferno is classic literature. It is a classic work of literature now in the public domain.