Books Like The Ghost Sonata by August Strindberg | Suggesting Reading

The Ghost Sonata What Do I Read Next?

In a career spanning forty years, August Strindberg wrote 60 plays. Many were never very popular, and are no longer performed, even in the author's native Sweden, but some have become classics of modern dramatic literature. Try reading The Father (1887), Miss Julie (1889), a short one-act play called The Stronger (1889), or his "dramatic lyrical-fantasy in fourteen scenes," written partly in prose and partly in verse called A Dream Play (1901).

The Ghost Sonata is often considered an early form of twentieth century experimental drama like Expressionism or Absurdism. Consider reading The Emperor Jones (1920), an expression-istic drama by American playwright Eugene O'Neill, or Samuell Beckett's 1952 absurdist play Waiting for Godot.

Like a handful of other great European writers during the last decades of the nineteenth century, Strindberg was profoundly affected by the movement toward Realism in drama. His Miss Julie (1889), for example, is a...
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