Books with title Road To Damascus

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INTRODUCTION Strindberg's great trilogy The Road to Damascus presents many mysteries to the uninitiated. Its peculiar changes of mood, its gallery of half unreal characters, its bizarre episodes combine to make it a bewilderingly rich but rather 'difficult' work. It cannot be recommended to the lover of light drama or the seeker of momentary distraction. The Road to Damascus does not deal with the superficial strata of human life, but probes into those depths where the problems of God, and death, and eternity become terrifying realities. Many authors have, of course, dealt with the profoundest problems of humanity without, on that account, having been able to evoke our interest. There may have been too much philosophy and too little art in the presentation of the subject, too little reality and too much soaring into the heights. That is not so with Strindberg's drama. It is a trenchant settling of accounts between a complex and fascinating individual—the author—and his past, and the realistic scenes have often been transplanted in detail from his own changeful life. In order fully to understand The Road to Damascus it is therefore essential to know at least the most important features of that background of real life, out of which the drama has grown. Parts I and II of the trilogy were written in 1898, while Part III was added somewhat later, in the years 1900-1901. In 1898 Strindberg had only half emerged from what was by far the severest of the many crises through which in his troubled life he had to pass. He had overcome the worst period of terror, which had brought him dangerously near the borders of sanity, and he felt as if he could again open his eyes and breathe freely. He was not free from that nervous pressure under which he had been working, but the worst of the inner tension had relaxed and he felt the need of taking a survey of what had happened, of summarising and trying to fathom what could have been underlying his apparently unaccountable experiences. The literary outcome of this settling of accounts with the past was The Road to Damascus.

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The Road to Damascus is indispensable reading for anyone interested in the great Swedish playwright, August Strindberg. Basically autobiographical, this trilogy of plays explores a relentlessly tortured mind. It is a tale of passion and renunciation, of love tinged with madness, revealing the secrets of Strindberg's own personality in terms of exciting theater.

Spanning 30 years, Road to Damascus is the true story of sisters, Suzan and Jigi. Separated as children they are brought up in different countries, neither knowing of the other whereabouts. Twelve year old Suzan is taken by her mother to Amman, Jordan, after the death of her father in 1965. But Jigi, Suzan’s baby sister and born with a rare bone disease, is left behind in a south London hospital. Their mother promises the authorities that she will return to London after she has buried her husband, but she doesn’t. Moving from hospital to a children’s home in Oxfordshire, Jigi knows little of her family background, or that she has a sister at all. Armed with a cast-iron determination not to conform to stereotype, Jigi bumps and crashes her way through school expecting freedom, a fun and Simon Le Bon when she finally leaves. What she finds is discrimination, loneliness and an ill-prepared society that has no use for society’s rejects. Arriving back in Amman, Suzan is passed around various family members for the next six years while her mother embarks on a new life without her. Forced to marry a Syrian man she loathes on sight, Suzan’s dreams are finally shattered: She will never return to her beloved England. Instead she gains a veil, a violent husband, and a cruel, nagging mother-in-law from whom there is little escape. However, a life destined for purpose is seldom left to chance. Discovering that her mother has made a mysterious visit to London, Suzan sets out to find the baby sister she has had no knowledge of for nearly two decades. Knowing nothing of what she is about to get into, but in need of adventure, Jigi embarks on a roller-coaster trip, that will change her life forever. Surviving the Middle East’s suffocating heat and the relentless chaos within a family she has never before set eyes upon, Jigi returns to London with a money belt stuffed to busting, vowing never to touch Arab soil again. But she does, again and again, compelled to do so by a reckless nature, and a truckload of unresolved business. When Suzan’s husband’s temper unintentionally kills his mother, and his cowboy antics put him in prison, Suzan finally takes to her prayer mat. Perhaps she will at last find peace in Islam? However, Jigi’s road to salvation takes a different course. Driven by her sense of rootlessness, Jigi searches for the only God she has ever known: a benevolent, but distant entity she met briefly in Sunday School. During a particularly turbulent trip on a road to Damascus, Jigi and Suzan finally come to terms with their separate destinies, and together face the mother who abandoned them.

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Excerpt from The Road to Damascus: A NovelHe was very tired; in the turmoil of the last week he had had no chance for rest; with a sigh of relief he leaned back, and let himself listen to the thoughts which jostled each other in his brain, in odd unison with the uneven movement of the wheels beneath him.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.