Getting Married
Condition: SECONDHAND
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Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: No dust jacket
Pages: Good
Condition remarks: Condition as shown in image
Few writers in literary history have approached the battle of the sexes with the ferocity and unflinching candour of August Strindberg, and Getting Married stands as one of his most audacious provocations. This celebrated collection of short stories, first published in two volumes in 1884 and 1886, chronicles the turbulent, contradictory, and often darkly comic lives of men and women trapped in the institution of marriage in late nineteenth-century Sweden, laying bare the economic, social, and psychological power struggles that define their unions. Strindberg writes with a savage wit and a naturalist's precision, dissecting bourgeois conventions and gender roles with a scalpel rather than a pen. The stories veer from biting satire to genuine pathos, presenting a panorama of intimate relationships that remains startlingly modern in its psychological acuity. Getting Married is not merely a period document — it is a profoundly unsettling mirror held up to human desire and social constraint, leaving the reader to question whether the institution it portraits liberates or imprisons those who enter it.
Author: August Strindberg
Format: Paperback
Genre: Classic fiction
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: No dust jacket
Pages: Good
Condition remarks: Condition as shown in image
Few writers in literary history have approached the battle of the sexes with the ferocity and unflinching candour of August Strindberg, and Getting Married stands as one of his most audacious provocations. This celebrated collection of short stories, first published in two volumes in 1884 and 1886, chronicles the turbulent, contradictory, and often darkly comic lives of men and women trapped in the institution of marriage in late nineteenth-century Sweden, laying bare the economic, social, and psychological power struggles that define their unions. Strindberg writes with a savage wit and a naturalist's precision, dissecting bourgeois conventions and gender roles with a scalpel rather than a pen. The stories veer from biting satire to genuine pathos, presenting a panorama of intimate relationships that remains startlingly modern in its psychological acuity. Getting Married is not merely a period document — it is a profoundly unsettling mirror held up to human desire and social constraint, leaving the reader to question whether the institution it portraits liberates or imprisons those who enter it.