Many writers have been inspired by Dante’s Inferno; Tennyson, T. S. Eliot, Ezra Pound and Seamus Heaney. August Strindberg’s own Inferno, does not only record personal suffering and mental torture, but a period of doubt, when assailed by feelings of desperation and estrangement he set himself up as a scientist. It also casts some of his dramatic works, as The Father, Miss Julie and others, in different perspectives, allotting them alternative readings.
Eman Karmouty