A wealthy urban neighborhood. An ambitious student, a swindling old man, a mummy. A bold interplay between reality and the fantastical world. A captivating yet dangerous journey from the outside to the innermost parts of a house where the secret lives of its inhabitants are concealed.

Written in the three-part form of a musical sonata, Strindberg's masterpiece, "The Ghost Sonata," served as the prologue to the so-called theater of the absurd as well as the entire modern European theater. The enigmatic and open-to-multiple-interpretations work of the great Swedish writer is presented by Kappa Publishing in a revised version of the excellent translation by Margarita Melberg from Swedish.

The volume is enriched by an extensive afterword, specifically written for the edition by Dr. of Dramatic Arts Maria Sechopoulou, and a detailed chronology of Strindberg's life and work.