Project Manager
Engwall, GunnelProject manager
Stockholm UniversityAmount granted
2 754 069 SEKYear
2011
The national edition of August Strindberg's Collected Works contains all the works completed by Strindberg. These are novels, short stories, dramas, poems, essays and newspaper articles, totaling about 150 texts, published in 72 volumes. It includes the famous novels The Red Room and The Servant's Son, the dramas Miss Julie and A Dream Play, as well as articles on theater, art, language and science. The edition, which is aimed at both the general public and scholars, is based on Strindberg's own manuscripts. In this way, Strindberg's intentions can be preserved and a multitude of previous misprints and censorship errors can be corrected. In each text volume, Strindberg's texts are complemented by extensive commentaries on the creation and reception of the works. In addition, explanations of words and facts are included, making the texts more accessible to a contemporary audience. Special text-critical commentaries document how the texts have been established. Original manuscripts and first editions, variants and drafts are also presented, and in many cases secondary texts for each work are reproduced. The edition is supplemented by an index volume so that readers can easily find the various works included in the different volumes. Many of the published parts of August Strindberg's Collected Works are already included in the online Literature Bank (www.litteraturbanken.se). The entire edition, both text volumes and critical commentaries, will be included and preserved in this electronic bank of literary texts.