Inferno, Alone and Other Writings

Strindberg's troubles with censors and woman and his private demons grew parallel to his increasing artistic power and religious temper. Both developments may be seen in this volume of writings from the period. INFERNO is the most important of them, one of series of autobiographical novels. In it Strindberg's cynical naturalism and atheism of the 1880s was abjured; as Evert Sprinchon says in his Introduction, "under the pressure of middle age and mysterious occurences" Strindberg became a religious mystic.