Who is August Strindberg dating?
Swedish author, born at Stockholm on the 22nd of January 1849. He entered the University of Uppsala in 1867, but was compelled by poverty to interrupt his studies, which were resumed in 1870. His gloomy experiences of student life are reflected in a series of sketches named after two districts of Uppsala, Fran Fjerdingen och Svartbcken (1877), which aroused great indignation at the time. After various experiments as schoolmaster, private tutor and actor, he turned to journalism, and afterwards more than avenged himself for the triviality and narrowness of his new surroundings in his famous Rda rummet (“The Red Room”, 1879), described in the subtitle as sketches of literary and artistic life. The “red room” was the meeting-place in a small caf in Stockholm of a society of needy journalists and artists, whose failure and despair are shown off against the prosperity of a typical bourgeois couple. In these stories Strindberg`s fanatic hatred of womankind already makes its appearance, the d
