The Inferno

August Strindberg's classic autobiographical novel about a man living in Paris with his wife and family who travels in artistic circles with Paul Gauguin and Edvard Munch and experiments with alchemy and the occult on his own. Burdened by paranoia and a persecution complex, the man descends to lower depths at the mercy of his neuroses. He flees to Austria and becomes further obsessed with the Occult and the cult of Swedenborgianism.