In the canon
Inferno and From an Occult Diary
- Form
- Form Autobiography
- Year
- Year 1897
- Originally in
- Originally in French
- Pages
- Pages 300
The hands are the place to start: blistered, cracked, stained black by the acids Strindberg handled night after night in a Paris hotel room, trying to prove that sulphur contains carbon and that lead could be persuaded into gold. What he set down afterwards is not a study of madness observed from outside; it is the weather from within.
I drift alone over the surface of the sea; I have hoisted my anchor, but have no sail.
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