by August Strindberg · Flammarion · tapa blanda · ISBN 9782080709707
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«Mademoiselle Julie - Le Pélican» is a theatre volume by August Strindberg, published by Flammarion in paperback (256 pages, in French).
In «Mademoiselle Julie», on a festive night, with the count absent, Julie and the servant Jean become involved in a game of seduction marked by desire and social class. «Le Pélican», an intimate chamber piece, portrays a family governed by selfishness and secrets. Both works seek contradictory characters, not archetypes.
«Mademoiselle Julie» dates from 1888 and «Le Pélican» from 1907. French edition with introduction and translation by Régis Boyer.
For readers of classic theatre: two plays from Swedish dramaturgy in a single volume.
Johan August Strindberg was a Swedish playwright, novelist, poet, essayist, and painter. A prolific writer who often drew directly on his personal experience, Strindberg wrote more than 60 plays and more than 30 works of fiction, autobiography, history, cultural analysis, and politics during his career, which spanned four decades. A bold experimenter and iconoclast throughout his life, he explored a wide range of dramatic methods and purposes, from naturalistic tragedy, monodrama, and historical plays to his anticipations of expressionist and surrealist dramatic techniques. From his earliest work, Strindberg developed innovative forms of dramatic action, language, and visual composition. He is considered the "father" of modern Swedish literature and his The Red Room (1879) has frequently been described as the first modern Swedish novel. In Sweden, Strindberg is known as an essayist, painter, poet, and especially novelist and playwright, but in other countries he is known mostly as a playwright.
