[Download] ~ Lucky Pehr ~ by August Strindberg ~ eBook PDF Kindle ePub Free
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- Title: Lucky Pehr
- Author : August Strindberg
- Release Date : January 23, 2014
- Genre: Fiction & Literature,Books,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 658 KB
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Excerpt:
SCENE: A Room in the Church Tower.
Window shutters at back wide open, starlit sky is seen through windows.
Background: Snow covered house-roofs; gable windows in the distance
brilliantly illuminated. In room an old chair, a fire-pan and a picture of the
Virgin, with a lighted candle before it. Room is divided by posts--two in centre
thick enough to conceal an adult.
Chant, in unison, from the church below:
A Solis ortus cardine Et usque terrae limitem Christum canamus principem
Natum Maria Virgini.
[Old Man comes up tower steps and enters carrying a rat-trap, a barley-sheaf
and a dish of porridge, which he sets down on the floor.]
OLD MAN. Now the elf shall have his Christmas porridge. And this year he
has earned it honestly--twice he awakened me when I fell asleep and forgot the
tower shutters; once he rang the bell when fire broke loose. Merry Christmas,
Elf! and many of them. [Takes up rat-trap and sets it.] Here's your Christmas
mess, Satan's rats!
A VOICE. Curse not Christmas!
…
About Author:
Johan August Strindberg (22 January 1849 – 14 May 1912) was a Swedish playwright, novelist, poet, essayist and painter. A prolific writer who often drew directly on his personal experience, Strindberg's career spanned four decades, during which time he wrote over 60 plays and more than 30 works of fiction, autobiography, history, cultural analysis, and politics. A bold experimenter and iconoclast throughout, he explored a wide range of dramatic methods and purposes, from naturalistic tragedy, monodrama, and history plays, to his anticipations of expressionist and surrealist dramatic techniques. From his earliest work, Strindberg developed forms of dramatic action, language, and visual composition so innovative that many were to become technically possible to stage only with the advent of film. 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.
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