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August Strindberg
Swedish playwright August Strindberg.
In his work Inferno, the Swedish dramatist August Strindberg describes a profound personal crisis characterized by a period of intense emotional and physical stress, literary sterility, and significant mental instability. This turbulent phase culminated in a religious conversion and was marked by his deep involvement in the study of theosophy and experiments in alchemy.1