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Strindberg
Admiré par ses pairs - Ibsen, Tchekhov, Gorki, Shaw -, Strindberg fut longtemps rejeté par ses compatriotes. Créateur de nombre des aspects du théâtre contemporain, il noua de fortes amitiés avec Gauguin, Munch, Yeats. Auteur dramatique original, il puisa dans sa vie tourmentée la matière d'écrits autobiographiques qui tenaient dans sa pensée une place aussi prépondérante que les pièces.De son théâtre, Strindberg avouait finir par ignorer s'il était une fiction ou si ce n'était pas plutôt sa vie qui l'avait été. "En écrivant beaucoup, j'ai fait de ma vie la vie d'une ombre : j'ai le sentiment de ne pas me déplacer sur terre mais de flotter sans pesanteur dans une atmosphère qui n'est pas faite d'air mais de ténèbres."Strindberg est joué sur les scènes du monde entier, car à tous son théâtre ne parle plus de l'auteur, mais du mal-être universel de l'existence. Ce travail de sublimation créative, tel que le restitue Michael Meyer, permet enfin de comprendre comment Strindberg, marqué par des influences aussi diverses que Schopenhauer, Nietzsche ou Rousseau, put infléchir son écriture, sans rupture, du naturalisme le plus militant au symbolisme le plus épuré, du drame historique national au théâtre intimiste joué en chambre.
848 pages, Paperback
First published January 1, 1982
About the author
Michael Meyer
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Michael Meyer is an American travel writer and the author of In Manchuria: A Village Called Wasteland and the Transformation of Rural China and The Last Days of Old Beijing: Life in the Vanishing Backstreets of a City Transformed. He graduated from University of Wisconsin–Madison. He first went to China in 1995 with the Peace Corps. Following Peace Corps, he graduated from the University of California, Berkeley, where he studied writing under Adam Hochschild and Maxine Hong Kingston.
His work has appeared in The New York Times, Time, Smithsonian, the New York Times Book Review, the Financial Times, Reader’s Digest, the Los Angeles Times, the Chicago Tribune, The Iowa Review, and on This American Life.
In China, he has represented the National Geographic Society’s Center for Sustainable Destinations, training China’s UNESCO World Heritage Site managers in preservation practices.
He lives in Singapore and Pittsburgh, where he is an Assistant Professor of English at the University of Pittsburgh, teaching Nonfiction writing.
After a five year clearance delay, his book The Last Days of Old Beijing was published in mainland China.
Michael Meyer is an American travel writer and the author of In Manchuria: A Village Called Wasteland and the Transformation of Rural China and The Last Days of Old Beijing: Life in the Vanishing Backstreets of a City Transformed. He graduated from University of Wisconsin–Madison. He first went to China in 1995 with the Peace Corps. Following Peace Corps, he graduated from the University of California, Berkeley, where he studied writing under Adam Hochschild and Maxine Hong Kingston.
His work has appeared in The New York Times, Time, Smithsonian, the New York Times Book Review, the Financial Times, Reader’s Digest, the Los Angeles Times, the Chicago Tribune, The Iowa Review, and on This American Life.
In China, he has represented the National Geographic Society’s Center for Sustainable Destinations, training China’s UNESCO World Heritage Site managers in preservation practices.
He lives in Singapore and Pittsburgh, where he is an Assistant Professor of English at the University of Pittsburgh, teaching Nonfiction writing.
After a five year clearance delay, his book The Last Days of Old Beijing was published in mainland China.
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