#August Strindberg

[thunderstruck9]

August Strindberg (Swedish, 1849-1912), Solitary Fly Cap, 1892-93. Oil on paper laid down on canvas, 47 x 44 cm.

[amicus-noctis]

“We know so little about one another. We embrace a shadow and love a dream.” ― Hjalmar Söderberg, Doctor Glas

Painting: "I Even Dream About You" 2023 by Jess Allen

[mythical-redon]

By August Strindberg

[random-brushstrokes]

August Strindberg - Rosendals garden II (1903)

[contremineur]

August Strindberg, Celestograph

In 1893, Swedish playwright August Strindberg thought he’d captured the stars on film. His failed photography experiments continued to evolve, chemically and beautifully, long after his death.

from here

[hitku]

by August Strindberg

[lillyli-74]

There are poisons that blind you, and poisons that open your eyes.

~August Strindberg

[novamilano1]

Of finding one's voice, of class divide, of journey towards revolution ? Young Royal analysis S3

I am back, much to my dismay even if the journey is also exhilarating. The limerence, the gut-wrenching obsession which were in check are ablaze with the S3 trailer !!! I am just so excited ! I am buzzing and I need to put it down in words etc.

My first Tumblr post, a few months ago (2 ?) was to talk about this insane amount of mental charge YR was taking rent-free in my head and my life and to ask about book references in YR. (Thanks for the answers even if in-between the countless rewatches of YR, I didn't take much time to read.)

So let's start anew with the S3 trailer. We all saw that in the library scene, just near Wilhelm's head, the cover of a book was subtly put, so to speak, in display even if it was in the background and even if the cover was blurred. Some undescripts yellow booklets are set aside so that we can see the cover of said book. So I tracked it down. Of course, it's a given. I am passionate about literature (though not versed at all in Scandinavian literature). It's the cover of Fröken Julie and Ett drömspel, by August Strindberg, a Swedish playwright. First Miss Julie (1888) paired with another play, A Dream play (1901). Both plays, with different means talk about (dixit wiki) class struggles, the journey to find one's voice, to navigate the tricky balance between the place assigned by society and by gender stereotypes, the struggle between obeying rules, following duty and be one's true self. Fröken Julie is about a forbidden love between an upper class woman who falls in love with a low-class servant. Both try to escape the boundaries, but the weight of the class-divided, patriarchal society is too heavy and the play hints at a final suicide as a way out. I don't think YR will end badly, Willmon will of course be endgame. But the struggles are real and painful.

Miss Julie's plot happens on Midsummer's eve. Stay tuned, I will make two other differents posts based on Midsummer, Young royals etc. What's your take on all this ?

Thank you @lisaambjorn-blog for giving us such a rich show, so many occasions to deepen our culture, to start a conversation on societal, political issues ! Young Royals Baby to quote Omar and of course, let's start a revolution !

[terminusantequem]

August Strindberg (Swedish, 1849-1912), Blomman på heden [Flower of the Moor], 1902. Oil on board, 49.6 x 30.2 cm

[dk-thrive]

I had been given this insight into myself, and there was nothing else I could do but say: I want to do this forever.”

“And then, one night, onstage, just like that, it happened. The power of expression was revealed to me, in a way it never had before. I wasn’t even searching for it. That’s the beauty of these things. You’re not looking for it. I’m opening my mouth and I’m understanding somehow that I can speak. Words are coming out, and they’re the words of Strindberg, but I’m saying them as though they’re mine. The world is mine, and my feelings are mine, and they’re going beyond the South Bronx. I left the familiar. I became a part of something larger. I found that there was more to me, a feeling that I belonged to a whole world and not just to one place. I’m thinking to myself, What is this? It feels as though I’m lifting off the ground. I thought, Yes, this is it. It’s right there and I can reach out and touch it. This is out there, and this is what I know now is possible. All of a sudden, in that moment, I was universal. I knew I didn’t have a worry after that. I eat, I don’t eat. I make money, I don’t make money. I’m famous, I’m not famous. It didn’t mean anything anymore. And that’s lucky, in this business, when you don’t care about that. A door was opening, not to a career, not to success or fortune, but to the living spirit of energy. I had been given this insight into myself, and there was nothing else I could do but say: I want to do this forever.”

― Al Pacino, Sonny Boy: A Memoir (Penguin Press, October 15, 2024)

[edwordsmyth]

Al Pacino talking about the epiphany he had while workshopping a scene from Strindberg's play, Creditors, in the early 1960s.

[amicus-noctis]

“I loathe people who keep dogs. They are cowards who haven't got the guts to bite people themselves.” ― August Strindberg

Painting: "Head of a Dog" by Edvard Munch

[addictivecontradiction]

Fröken Julie, 1951

[beyourselfchulanmaria]

Ichiro Tsuruta 鶴田一郎

有使你失明的毒藥，也有讓你睜開眼睛的毒藥。 There are poisons that blind you, and poisons that open your eyes.

─ August Strindberg《The ghost sonata》現代戲劇創始人之一奧古斯特·斯特林堡（1849 —1912）是一位多產的瑞典���家、劇作家和他也是畫家。在其四十餘年的創作生涯中，創作了六十多部戲劇和三多部著作，其著作涵蓋小說、歷史、自傳、政治和文化賞析等。作為一個創作與以顛覆傳統為一貫作風的創作家，他透過自我摸索習得戲劇性描繪方法及其廣泛用途，他的作品表現自然主義與表現主義。

[blake-ritson-love]

BBC Radio 3 - The Dance of Death, new audio drama starring Blake Ritson, Hattie Morahan & Robert Glenister. The drama is available for online listening till Dec 10.

[thinkingimages]

At first you see nothing but a chaos of colors; then it begins to look like something, it resembles — no, it does not look like anything. All of a sudden, a point detaches itself; like the nucleus of a cell, it grows, the colors are clustered around it, heaped; rays develop, shooting forth branches and twigs like ice crystals on the window panes… and the picture reveals itself to the viewer, who has assisted at the birth of the painting.

August Strindberg