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May 25, 2019 6:24 PM   Subscribe

On Chance in Artistic Creation - an 1894 essay by August Strindberg paired with paintings by Strindberg.

There's a fair number of minor typos or OCR errors in the above text, so here's another transcription, but without the paintings.
posted by moonmilk (5 comments total) 11 users marked this as a favorite
 
"Who's hot tonight? Strindberg's hot tonight!"
posted by dobbs at 8:35 PM on May 25, 2019 [4 favorites]


That's marvelous, moonmilk, OCR typos and all. (The paintings are essential.)
posted by CCBC at 1:05 AM on May 26, 2019


I find Strindberg pretty difficult to like, his biography seems to be 80% madness and misogyny, but I did enjoy this.

I also enjoy Strindberg and Helium.
posted by CheeseDigestsAll at 6:10 AM on May 26, 2019


Yeah, this is about the only Strindberg writing I've enjoyed, but it's extremely relevant to my interests, and the paintings really do add a lot to it.

I wasn't gonna mention Strindberg and Helium because a friend of mine was the animator. But I'd forgotten that friend links are no longer strictly forbidden!
posted by moonmilk at 7:59 AM on May 26, 2019


I first started getting interested in Strindberg because of that strange impersonation of him in 'Mai Zetterling's Stockholm' (1979). He's something else.
posted by ovvl at 10:11 AM on May 26, 2019


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