“Ensam”: the Narrator, the Town and an Adventure of Perception

In the novel Ensam (1903), Strindberg speaks about an existential landscape, that is to say of the protagonist-narrator's inner self; but, anyhow, the author extensively speaks of Stockholm as well. The relationship between the narrator and his town is not transformed into a mere picturesque, descriptive connection; instead, it becomes a true adventure of perception which enables us to grasp peculiar aspects of a deep modernistic character of the artistic construction of the reality which is suggested by the Swedish writer.