The Ghost Sonata (Cyclopedia of Literary Characters)
At a glance:
- Author: August Strindberg
- First Published: 1907
- Type of Work: Play
- Type of Plot: Expressionism
- Time of Work: The early 1900’s
- Setting: An apartment house in Sweden
- Genres: Drama, Mythological literature, Expressionist literature
- Subjects: Suffering, Folkloric or magical people, Twentieth century, Guilt, Corruption, Hallucinations or illusions, Apartment houses, Mortality, Sweden or Swedish people, Zombies or living dead
- Locales: Sweden
Characters Discussed
Arkenholz (AHR-kehn-hohlts), a student. The unshaven young man’s appearance is less an indication of slovenliness than of the fact that he is a man of action. The student was a hero in a disaster, a house collapse, that occurred just before the time of the play. Throughout, his vigorous, life-affirming qualities are in contrast to those of the mostly anemic, old, or quite literally dead characters who appear in this dream play. The “student” aspect of his character is at least as important. As the central character, his chief function is to observe...
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