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Translated from the “Litterarisches Echo,”
August 15, 1911
STRINDBERG’S WORKS
(By I. E. Poritzky, Berlin)
The republication of The Confession of a Fool represents
the last link in the chain of Strindberg’s autobiographical
novels. A German version of the book was published as far
back as 1893, but it was mutilated, abbreviated, corrupted,
and falsified to such an extent that the attorney-general,
misled by the revolting language, blamed the author for the
misdeeds of the translator and prohibited the sale of the
book. This was a splendid advertisement for this profound
work, but there were many who would have rejoiced if
the translation had been completely ignored. It distorted
Strindberg’s character and was the cause of many prejudices
which exist to this day.
Schering’s new translation is an attempt to make reparation
for this crime. “It is impossible,” he says, “that any
attorney-general can now doubt the high morality of this
book.” Strindberg himself has called it a terrible book, and
has regretted that he ever wrote it. He has never published
it in Swedish, his own language, because not only is it too
personal in character, but it also revealed a still bleeding
wound. It contains the relentless description of his first
marriage, so superbly candid an account, that one is reminded
of the last testament of a man for whom death has no longer
any terror. We know from his fascinating novel Separated,
how painful the burden was which he had to bear, and how
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