Project Manager
Engwall, GunnelProject manager
Stockholm UniversityAmount granted
1 000 000 SEKYear
2013
The national edition of August Strindberg's Collected Works contains all the works completed by Strindberg. These include novels, short stories, plays, poems, essays and newspaper articles, totaling around 150 texts, published in 72 volumes. They include 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 printing errors and censorship errors can be corrected. In each text volume, Strindberg's texts are supplemented by extensive commentaries describing 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 texts related to the work in question, such as Strindberg's own translations or drafts, are also reproduced. The edition is completed by an index volume so that readers can easily find the works included in the different volumes. All of Strindberg's Collected Works will be published in the online Literature Bank (www.litteraturbanken.se), where several works are already freely available along with many other Swedish literary texts.