The Ghost Sonata
by August Strindberg, translated by Laurence Senelick

Ghosts drift through Strindberg's haunted and haunting dreamscape where a student idealizes the inhabitants of a stylish Stockholm apartment building, only to discover that their lives, perhaps even life itself, may be a kind of hell from which salvation can only be achieved through suffering.“A fairy-tale or fantasy-tale in the present with modern houses.”

—August Strindberg“For all the heterodoxy of style and the fantasy of the action, the play is simple in structure and straightforward in its symbolism.

The three compact scenes constitute a statement, a counter-statement, and a conclusion.”

—Eric Bentley“A momentary glimpse of the world through the eyes of madness.”

—Maurice Valency“House of life, death, torment, and desire; the house of troubled shades, a place familiar in great myths as the underworld, the perils of what a hero must face and overcome.

All these associations and more envelop the house in THE GHOST SONATA.”

—Harry G Carlson