STRINDBERG, strind'hery',AtousT (1849— ). A Swedish novelist, dramatist, and miscellaneous writer, the most prominent exponent in Swed ish literature of the modern realistic tendency. He ryas horn in Stockholm, and after some suc cess as a dramatic author became at once more widely known through his novel Rada runi m et The Red Room. 1879), satirical sketches of the literary and artistic world. In the same vein was Det nya riket (The New Kingdom, 1882), which caused such violent discussion on the part of the reactionary journalistic faction as to induce its author to repair to foreign parts, principally Paris. Germany, and Switzerland. Since 1897 he settled again in Sweden. His other novels include Hemstiborna (The Natives of Hemsu, 1887), Shiirharlslif (Life on the Skerries, 1888), and I Hafsbandet (Sea-girt, 1890). Worthy of notice are also several collections of short stories, to wit: Fran Fjerdinyen och Suartbilekca (From Fjerdingen and SvartbAcken, 1877) Giftas (Mar riages, 1884), which treated satirically of the relation between the sexes in the present age, and which involved him in a lawsuit for alleged irreverent attacks on religious institutions; and Utopia• i rerkligheten (Utopias Realized, 1885), advocating the solution of the labor question from the socialist point of view. Of his dramas
Master Olof (1872) constituted his first stage success and was followed by Gillets hc»llighet (The Secret of the Guild, 1880), Herr Bengt's hustru (Mr. Benges Wife, 1882), Fadren (The Father, 1887), and Froken Julie (Miss Julia, 1883). Among his other works are Svenska folket i hely och soken (The Swedish People in Every Walk of Life, 1882), on which was based the series of seventeen stories Svenska ode, oelr afrentyr (Swedish Destinies and Adventures, 1382-90), and Ganda Stockholm, (Old Stock holm, 18.82), in collaboration with Claes Lundin. He published an autobiography entitled Tjensteg vinnans son (The Servantmaid's Son, 1886). Consult Ilansson, Das jungc Skandinarien (Dres den, 1891), and Brandes, 3/cizschen and Werke (Frankfort, 1894).