Abstract:
We intend to determine the philosophical interest of the correspondence between Friedrich Nietzsche and August Strindberg. Their destinies intersect because of a community of opinions on essentially polemical subjects: so they question the modern ideals of feminine emancipation. To show the signification of this delicate fight, we examine the controversy which Strindberg commits against a play of Ibsen, A Doll's House. Thanks to this analysis, it's, for us, possible to propose an interpretation of a great tragedy of Strindberg (The Father), to conceive clearly the specifically nietzschean sense of that work, and to show finally the limits of the intellectual convergence between both men.
Keywords:
letters; fight; feminism; theatre; literature