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Title: August Strindberg : the spirit of revolt : studies and impressions
Year: 1913 (1910s)
Authors: Lind-af-Hageby, L. (Lizzy), 1878-1963
Subjects: Strindberg, August, 1849-1912
Publisher: London : Stanley Paul
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Toronto

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s, a rever-sionary power in the mere passage of timewhich calls for special tolerance. The re-viewers of the Athenceum and BlackwoodsMagazine, who suggested that RuskinsModern Painters had emanated from Bedlam,are more entitled to our sympathy than theobject of their criticism. The Swedes have a peculiar fear of praisingthat which is their own. They labour undera feeling that such praise is egotistical, blus-tering and discourteous to others. In Swedishpeasant homes the housewife does honour toher guests by loud depreciation of the con-tents of her house and its offerings, no matterhow well-appointed the home may be. Thetrait persists in the judgment of cultured peopleon national qualities, art and literature. Itis certainly graceful, and makes the Swedean excellent companion, a polite and generousappreciator of the talents of others. But itis inimical to the toleration of a forceful andself-confident personality within ones own hoto by Sandels, Stockholm STRINDBERG IN HIS STUDY, 1911
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THE STRINDBERG-THEATRE IN STOCKHOLM THE THEATRE OF LIFE 321 family or nation, and favourable to the medi-ocritisation of boisterous originality. If Strind-berg had been an Italian or a Spaniard hewould in all probability have been therecipient of the Nobel Prize during his life-time, in addition to posthumous honours. In the Permanent Secretary of the SwedishAcademy (of Literature), the late Dr. C. D.af Wirsen, Strindberg had a persistent enemy.Wirsen acted as Secretary to the Academyfrom 1884 to his death in 1912, and exercisedconsiderable influence over the selection ofrecipients of the Nobel Prize in literaturewhich is awarded by the Swedish Academy.To Wirsen who wrote idyllic and elegiacpoetry, and who held everything that is oldin reverence, Strindberg was incomprehen-sible. By his attacks on Strindberg, and alsoby his derisive criticism of another free-thinking Swedish writer, Ellen Key,* Wirsenshows a close resemblance to the type offoolish biographer for which Mr. A. C. Benson

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