This autobiographical novel is based on Strindberg's life in the
1870s and 1880s, and focuses on his marriage to Siri von Essen. It
purports to be a vehicle for explaining to himself his role in the
relationship from its ecstatic beginnings to its catastrophic
conclusion. Strindberg was writing at the time of the modern
women's movement and the intense Nordic debate on sexual morality,
and the novel echoes on an anguished personal level the theme of
the battle of the sexes. It is one of his many and varied attempts
to write his own life, to use himself as raw material. The novel
was written in French and published as Le Plaidoyer d'un Fou in
1895. However, the French editor had made radical alterations to
Strindberg's text - how radical was not discovered until 1973, when
the original manuscript came to light. Previous translations into
English have been made from the published French version or the
Swedish translation of it; this is the first translation of
Strindberg's original text.
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