Prose works by Playwrights

A kind of follow-up to:

Prose works by poets

Beckett and Chehkov, but I'm looking for writers who are primarily playwrights who aren't known novelists. Thought of it after reading The Late Mattia Pascal by Luigi Pirandello.

ionesco wrote one novel, 'the hermit', which is worth reading if you like him. don't think it's in print, but easily available second hand.

Strindberg? Shaw? His prefaces are terrific.

yeah, Strindberg's the one who jumps to mind -

Notes from an Occult Diary

Inferno

So that's what happens if you use q-tags instead of i-tags in running copy. Melodrama!

If Strindberg is anything like the Rilke I'm there.

Didn't know Ionesco wrote a novel.

Thanks so far.

Mamet's The Village isn't bad, set in a small Vermont town. His others, including the weirdly Infinite Jest-ish Wilson, eh.

Pinter has one early novel, The Dwarfs.

David Rabe and Eric Bogosian each have a few.

Oh, and Sam Shepard's books of short stories and sketches are good.

And then diaries: David Hare's Acting Up and Simon Gray's diary about Stephen Fry quitting his play both are good reading.

The Ionesco book is great! Remember enjoying Strindberg's By The Open Sea a lot too, but it's been 20 years since I read that so who knows?

Not found the few recommends from here.

All the same we could have a thread on Strindberg on its own. Love him. Picked up Defense of a Madman this year and its great - direct, unhinged, bitter, this boiling river of prose.

Want to pick up a collection called Getting Married next.

His novel 'The People of Hemsö' is surprisingly upbeat (for Strindberg) and sunny

Yes also published by Norvik who have several titles by Strindberg.

Only prose Strindberg I read was "Small Cathecism for the Underclass", which suggests that, much as the underclass is oppressed by the upper class, so are men oppressed by women.

Dario Fo (of fame bcz of this play/his Nobel: https://libcom.org/article/accidental-death-anarchist-dario-fo) had a novel translated and published a while back.

https://www.europaeditions.com/book/9781609452742/the-pope-s-daughter

His novel 'The People of Hemsö' is surprisingly upbeat (for Strindberg) and sunny

I remember the novella "Alone" being quite gentle and touching (for Strindberg).

His paintings were pretty good too.