Historical Miniatures: Scenes from the History of the West
Sep 2026 · Aeneas Press
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Some two dozen scenes from history, each a few pages: the Egyptian bondage, Alcibiades, Socrates, Julian the Apostate, Attila, Peter the Hermit, the Great Czar — Strindberg walking into a room at the moment a life turns, and walking out again. He was a librarian, a telegraph clerk and a journalist before The Red Room made him famous, and painted seascapes when he could not write. These late miniatures are his argument that history is made by people who do not know what they are doing. Fifty-nine plates of portraiture and sea pieces, from David's revolutionary faces to storm scenes by Bonavia and Schaap, run alongside Strindberg's turning points in history.
Some two dozen scenes from history, each a few pages: the Egyptian bondage, Alcibiades, Socrates, Julian the Apostate, Attila, Peter the Hermit, the Great Czar — Strindberg walking into a room at the moment a life turns, and walking out again. He was a librarian, a telegraph clerk and a journalis...
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August Strindberg was a Swedish playwright, novelist and painter who worked as a librarian, telegraph clerk and journalist before The Red Room made him famous at thirty. He was tried for blasphemy, married and divorced three times, and passed through a psychotic crisis in Paris he recorded in Inferno. Miss Julie and A Dream Play changed European theatre; he also painted seascapes now hanging in major museums.
August Strindberg was a Swedish playwright, novelist and painter who worked as a librarian, telegraph clerk and journalist before The Red Room made him famous at thirty. He was tried for blasphemy, married and divorced three times, and passed through a psychotic crisis in Paris he recorded in Inf...
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