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.
― xyzzzz__, Sunday, 14 November 2010 10:24 (thirteen years ago) link
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.
― dogs, Sunday, 14 November 2010 12:57 (thirteen years ago) link
Strindberg? Shaw? His prefaces are terrific.
― otherwise, and twat (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Sunday, 14 November 2010 13:04 (thirteen years ago) link
yeah, Strindberg's the one who jumps to mind -
Notes from an Occult Diary
Inferno
― portrait of velleity (woof), Sunday, 14 November 2010 17:10 (thirteen years ago) link
So that's what happens if you use q-tags instead of i-tags in running copy. Melodrama!
― portrait of velleity (woof), Sunday, 14 November 2010 17:11 (thirteen years ago) link
If Strindberg is anything like the Rilke I'm there.
Didn't know Ionesco wrote a novel.
Thanks so far.
― xyzzzz__, Sunday, 14 November 2010 19:42 (thirteen years ago) link
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.
― no place running the schools (Eazy), Monday, 15 November 2010 09:25 (thirteen years ago) link
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?
― Krampus Interruptus (NickB), Wednesday, 24 November 2010 22:55 (thirteen years ago) link
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.
― xyzzzz__, Tuesday, 22 November 2016 22:41 (seven years ago) link
His novel 'The People of Hemsö' is surprisingly upbeat (for Strindberg) and sunny
― I hear from this arsehole again, he's going in the river (James Morrison), Tuesday, 22 November 2016 22:56 (seven years ago) link
Yes also published by Norvik who have several titles by Strindberg.
― xyzzzz__, Wednesday, 23 November 2016 23:33 (seven years ago) link
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.
― Daniel_Rf, Thursday, 24 November 2016 14:40 (seven years ago) link
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
― xyzzzz__, Monday, 5 December 2022 14:59 (one year ago) link
I remember the novella "Alone" being quite gentle and touching (for Strindberg).
― Gulf VAR Syndrome (Tom D.), Monday, 5 December 2022 18:35 (one year ago) link
His paintings were pretty good too.
― Gulf VAR Syndrome (Tom D.), Monday, 5 December 2022 18:37 (one year ago) link