Swedish novelist and playwright August Strindberg led a tumultuous life defined by giddy heights and despairing depths. One of his most intense periods of depression resulted in profound psychological and existential distress that Strindberg later...
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Swedish novelist and playwright August Strindberg led a tumultuous life defined by giddy heights and despairing depths. One of his most intense periods of depression resulted in profound psychological and existential distress that Strindberg later came to refer to as his ""Inferno"" crisis. In this gripping memoir, he recounts his spiritual turmoil and awakening, along with his experiments in the occult and black magic Title; Contents; Introduction; I -- The Hand of the Invisible; II -- St. Louis Leads Me to Orfila; III -- Paradise Regained; IV -- The Fall and Paradise Lost; V -- Purgatory; VI -- Hell; VII -- Beatrice; VIII -- Swedenborg; IX -- Extracts from the Diary of a Damned Soul; X -- The Eternal Has Spoken; XI -- Hell Let Loose; XII -- Pilgrimage and Penance; XIII -- The Deliverer; XIV -- Tribulations; XV -- Whither?; Epilogue; Endnotes.
