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(1912) [MARC] Author: August Strindberg Translator: Ellie Schleussner
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my arms, when I stood before him with clean hands and
confessed to him my guiltless love for the wife he
neglected. Let them remember the important fact that
I took upon my young shoulders the whole burden of our
fault, to save his position in the army and the future of
his little girl. Let them then say whether it is just to
punish an act of self-sacrifice by an act of brutal revenge.

“One must be young and foolish to act as I have acted,
I admit that. But it will not happen again—never
again.... But... enough of it! And then... no...
good-bye!”

He walked away quickly, leaving me under the spell
of his perfect honesty.

I never again regretted having published the story of
this idealist, who has now disappeared from literature and
the world. But I abandoned my former intention to write
“The Confession of a Foolish Woman,” because, after
all, it goes too much against common-sense to allow a
criminal to give evidence against her victim.

        French Original Edition, 1894.

It was the outspoken account of his first marriage,
written in self-defence and as a last testament, for he
intended to take his life as soon as the book was finished.
For five years the sealed manuscript, which was not meant
for publication, was in the safe keeping of a relative.
Only in the spring of 1893, under the pressure of
circumstances and after public opinion and the press had
attacked him in the most unjust manner, did he sell the
book to a publisher.

        “Separated,” 1902.

THE END

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