Excerpt from The Inferno<br><br>AN American critic says Strindberg is the greatest subjectivist of all time. Certam neither Augustine, Rousseau, nor Tolstoy have laid bare their souls to the finest fibre with more ruthless than the great Swedish realist. He fulfilled to the letter the saying of Robertson of Brighton, Woman and God are two rocks on which a man must either anchor or be wreck His four autobiographical works, The Son of a Servant, The Confessions of a Fool, Inferno, and Legends, are four sege ments of an immense curve tracing his progress from the childish pietism of his early years, through a period of atheism and rebellion, to the sombre faith in a God that punishes of the sexagenarian. In his spiritual wanderings he grazed the edge of madness, and madmen Often see deeper into things than ordinary folk.<br><br>About the Publisher<br><br>Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com<br><br>This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.