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THE INFERNO
INTRODUCTION
[1]
An American critic says “Strindberg is the
greatest subjectivist of all time.” Certainly
neither Augustine, Rousseau, nor Tolstoy have
laid bare their souls to the finest fibre with
more ruthless sincerity than the great Swedish
realist. He fulfilled to the letter the saying of
Robertson of Brighton, “Woman and God are
two rocks on which a man must either anchor
or be wrecked.” His four autobiographical
works, The Son of a Servant, The Confessions
of a Fool, Inferno, and Legends, are four
segments of an immense curve tracing his progress
from the childish pietism of his early years,
through a period of atheism and rebellion, to
the sombre faith in a “God that punishes” of
the sexagenarian. In his spiritual wanderings
he grazed the edge of madness, and madmen
often see deeper into things than ordinary folk.
[1] Reprinted by permission from The Spectator.
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