ستريندبرج واحدا من كتابي المفضلين واعتبره القمة بين كتاب المسرح، وفي هذا العمل - بغض النظر عن مضمونه الذي قد يختلف البعض عليه - كان وكالعادة متمكنا بشدة من أدواته المسرحية، من حبكة وعرض للشخصيات وتطور للحدث وغيرها، بجانب قوة العاطفة المنقولة بلغة في منتهى الجمال - مترجمة بعربية جميلة - فقط افتقدت ال

"الجريمة المعنوية التي ترتكبها الأفكار أشد فتكا من تلك التي يعاقب عليها القانون وذلك لأصحاب الأنفس الطيبه فقط"

" اذا تحول الحب إلي كراهية فلا يعني ذلك إلا شيئاً واحداً الا وهو ان هذا الحب كان فاسداً من البداية "

أختار جيدا، من تضحى لأجله
حتى لا تقع فيمن يحبك حب أضطرار

Wasn’t sure what to think of this. The main character was such a deadbeat. I get that the point of him is that he was a jerk... but I feel like the narrative was sympathetic to him in the end, and I was not. I do think the ending was an appropriate way to convey the theme of the story... but I feel

There is no question that – as sure as winter nights in Sweden are cold – August Strindberg focused in his plays on human frailty. The great Swedish dramatist crafted relentlessly realistic stories of modern life, and frequently showed overconfident people making ill-informed choices and then suffer

The first play I’ve read from Strindberg that didn’t seem melodramatic or overly vicious in portraying the “battle of the sexes.” Instead, this play (a “comedy”) shows the battle within: the “crimes” of the mind/spirit that exist outside the reach of human justice but still torture us with guilt, an

Crimes and Crimes is a play focusing on a successful playwright who abandons his mistress and child for another woman. The child mysteriously dies, which causes susupicion that the playwright or his new mistress killed her in order to "get the weight off". While this is indeed an interesting focus,