The Confession of a Fool | The Confession of a Fool

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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 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...

The Confession of a Fool | The Confession of a Fool

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