This patho-psychological study gives an intimate insight into the life and psychology of one of the most striking and interesting geniuses of the latter half of the nineteenth and early part of the twentieth centuries. The author has done his work well and given us a fascinating story of the emotional strivings of a deeply neurotic genius, one of the most extraordinary aspects of the story being the great amount of autobiographical material confirmatory of the psychoanalytic hypothesis. Strindberg not only wrote himself into his plays, but he also boldly and simply stated his own difficulties in unequivocal terms. The power and the strength of Strindberg's writing in such