The Son of a Servant (Classic Reprint) - Couverture souple

Strindberg, August

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1440061610 ISBN 13 : 9781440061615

Editeur : Forgotten Books, 2018

Synopsis

Discover a piercing portrait of a young man’s inner life and the price of growing up in a shifting world.

In this intimate psychological tale, a boy named John navigates a life shaped by a crowd of contradictory voices. His father, step‑mother, brothers, servants, and friends all weigh in on who he is, raising questions about truth, ego, and belonging. As he moves from childhood into adolescence, he confronts doubt, pressure, and the lure of adult roles, only to find that the self is never simple. The book follows John’s struggle to understand himself and his place in a family and society that demand many masks.

Through vivid scenes and sharp observations, the narrative examines how people adapt to others’ expectations and how a single life can hold multiple selves. It asks where the core of character lies and whether a person can stay true when surrounded by shifting loyalties, rules, and ambitions.

• Explore a sensitive, restless protagonist trying to make sense of family, society, and his own desires.


• See how doubt and responsiveness to pressure shape choices and fears.


• Watch relationships within a household evolve as new realities emerge.


• Experience a thoughtful study of identity, ambition, and the costs of growing up.

Ideal for readers who enjoy character-driven fiction that probes psychology and the formation of identity.

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur

Pram the Publication of The Son of a Servant to The Inferno (i88(i8g(S i) A CBLBBRATBO Statesman is said to have described the biography of a cardixial as being like the Judgment Day. In reading August Strindberg sautobiographical writings, as, for example, his I nfem Otand the book for which this study is a preface, we must remember that he portrays his own Judgment Day. And aal his works have come but lately before the great British public, it may be well to consider what attitude should be adopted towards the amaring candour of his self-revelation. In most provinces of life other than the comprehension of our fellows, the art of understanding is making great progress. We comprehend new phenomena without the old strain upon our capacity for readjusting our point of view. But do we equally well understand our fellow-being whose way of life is not ours? We are patient towards new phases of philosophy, new discoveries in science, new sociological facts, observed in other lands; but in considering an abnormal tjrpe of man or woman, hasty judgment or a too contracted outlook is still liable to doud the judgment. Now, it is obvious that if we would understand any worker ohas accomplished what his contemporaries could only attempt to do, we must have a sufficiently wide knowledge of his work. Neither the inconsequent gossip attaching to such a personality, nor the chance perusal of a problem-play, affords an adequate basis for arriving at a true estimate of the man. Pew writers demand, to the same degree as August Strindberg, those graces of judgment, patience, and reverence. And for this reason first of all: most of us live sheltered lives.
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Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Forgotten Books
• Date d'édition: 2018
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1440061610
• ISBN 13: 9781440061615
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 286
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