The Confession of a Fool (Masterplots II: World Fiction Series)
At a glance:
- Author: August Strindberg
- First Published: 1893
- Type of Work: Psychological realism
- Time of Work: The 1870’s and the 1880’s
- Setting: Stockholm
- Principal Characters: Axel, Marie, Gustav, Matilda
- Genres: Long fiction, Psychological fiction
- Subjects: Acting or actors, Love or romance, Nineteenth century, Marriage, Jealousy, envy, or resentment, Mental illness, Obsession, Adultery, Women, Divorce, Sweden or Swedish people, Nobility
- Locales: Stockholm, Sweden
The Novel
The Confession of a Fool is its first-person narrator’s account of painful and scandalous events during a thirteen-year period of his life. Axel, the twenty-seven-year-old narrator and protagonist, is a librarian at the Royal Stockholm Library and a writer. Seeking a patron for one of his plays, he calls on the Baron, Gustav, and the Baroness, Marie. Axel is immediately drawn to the Baroness. She is attractive, aristocratic, and passionately interested in the theater. He becomes a frequent visitor to Marie and Gustav’s home and is soon the...
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