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August Strindberg. The Growth of a Soul
The Growth of a Soul
Table of Contents
CHAPTER I. IN THE FORECOURT (1867)
CHAPTER II. BELOW AND ABOVE
CHAPTER III. THE DOCTOR (1868)
CHAPTER IV. IN FRONT OF THE CURTAIN (1869)
CHAPTER V. JOHN BECOMES AN ARISTOCRAT (1869)
CHAPTER VI. BEHIND THE CURTAIN (1869)
CHAPTER VII. JOHN BECOMES AN AUTHOR (1869)
CHAPTER VIII. THE "RUNA" CLUB (1870)
CHAPTER IX. BOOKS AND THE STAGE
CHAPTER X. TORN TO PIECES
CHAPTER XI. IDEALISM AND REALISM (1871)
CHAPTER XII. A KING'S PROTÉGÉ (1871)
CHAPTER XIII. THE WINDING UP (1872)
CHAPTER XIV. AMONG THE MALCONTENTS (1872)
CHAPTER XV. THE RED ROOM (1872)
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August Strindberg
Published by Good Press, 2021
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It was winter, and so the white student cap could not bestow on him a mild halo of glory or bring any honour to the family. Some one has asserted that war would cease if uniforms were done away with; and it is certain there would not be so many students if they had no outward sign to parade. In Paris where they have none, they disappear in the crowd, and no one makes a fuss about them; in Berlin on the other hand, they have a privileged place by the side of officers. Therefore also Germany is a land of professors and France of the bourgeois.
John's father now saw that he had educated a good-for-nothing for society who could not dig, but perhaps was not ashamed to beg. The world stood open for the youth to starve or to perish in. His father did not like his idea of becoming an elementary school-teacher. Was that to be the only result of so much work? His ambitious dreams received a shock from the idea of such a come-down. An elementary school-teacher was on a level with a sergeant, oil a plane from which there was no hope of mounting. Climb one must as long as others did; one must climb till one broke one's neck, so long as society was divided into ranks and classes. John had not passed the student's examination for the sake of knowledge, but of belonging to the upper class, and now he seemed to be meditating a descent to the lower.
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