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The Son of a Servant

August Strindberg

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Book Excerpt: 
. . .Then he sits again at the window in the bedroom. Bells are tolling the whole day long. Green biers are carried over the churchyard. Sometimes a dark mass of people stand round a black chest. Gravediggers with their spades keep coming and going. He has to wear a copper plate suspended by a blue silk ribbon on his breast, and chew all day at a root. That is the cholera epidemic of 1854.

One day he goes a long way with one of the servants—so far that he becomes homesick and cries for his mother. The servant takes him into a house; they sit in a dark kitchen near a green water-butt. He thinks he will never see his home again. But they still go on, past ships and barges, past a gloomy brick house with long high walls behind which prisoners sit. He sees a new church, a new alley lined with trees, a dusty high-road along whose edges dandelions grow. Now the servant carries him. At last they come to a great stone building hard by which is a yellow wooden house with. . . Read More

Community Reviews

Remarkable book. I heartily recommend it. Autobiographical, intimate confession of a soul. The action takes place in Sweden in mid-nineteenth century, successful description of an important era in Swedish history and harsh atmosphere where the writer grew up and lived. The author moves from intimate

Libro autobiográfico y valiente del autor donde cabe destacar una acertada crítica al régimen familiar y las dudas y contradicciones propias de la adolescencia agravadas por un complejo de inferioridad en una sociedad marcadamente clasista. Pese a los ingredientes, la novela se desarrolla de forma u

Det är kanske politiskt totalt inkorrekt att gilla Strindberg, men jag kan ändå inte låta bli att göra det. Allt han skriver i dessa två första delar av sin självbiografiska roman ”Tjänstekvinnans son” köper jag kanske inte, men i mångt och mycket utmanar han ändå rentav dagens tänk, för att inte ta

Uno degli autori cardine per la poetica di Franz Kafka; sotto molti aspetti i due sono similari ( il tema della famiglia o della religione). Romanzo comunque semplice e godibile, tremendamente introspettivo.

Läste bara första två delarna, drygt 200 sidor. Inte värt.

Trots sin nonchalans gentemot omvärlden, förtjänar han ett ganska gott omdöme för faktumet att det är närmre självbiografiskt än fiktivt!

Skulle ge den 4,7 i betyg. Grym! Blir helt besatt och känner jag måste läsa allt av Strindberg. Detta är den bästa coming of age-romanen, sprängfylld med sociologiska och filosofiska reflektioner. Asbra om klassamhället, relationer, att va barn, växa upp, ”hitta sig själv”, ideal/verklighet, romanti

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