Torches for Superman
Raymond Williams
- By the Open Sea by August Strindberg, translated by Mary Sandbach
Secker, 193 pp, £8.95, October 1984, ISBN 0 436 50008 6 - August Strindberg by Olof Lagercrantz, translated by Anselm Hollo
Faber, 399 pp, £20.00, September 1984, ISBN 0 571 11812 7 - Strindberg: A Biography by Michael Meyer
Secker, 651 pp, £25.00, October 1985, ISBN 0 436 27852 9
Who carried a torch for August Strindberg? On his 63rd, and last, birthday, some ten thousand people, led by the Stockholm Workers’ Commune with bands and red union banners, marched past the apartment that he called the Blue Tower, after the name of a Danish prison. The ‘Marseillaise’ and ‘other anthems of liberation’ were sung. There were cheers for ‘the People’s Strindberg’ and ‘the King of Poets’.
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