On the Seaboard A Novel of the Baltic Islands
                        
                     
                                                         
                
                    On the Seaboard A Novel of the Baltic Islands
                                            
                            By  August Strindberg
                            
                                15 Feb, 2020                            
                            
                         
                                        
                                                                        What starts out as an account of a humdrum administrative assignment is elevated to an existential examination of the meaning of life in Swedish author August Strindberg's novel On the Seaboard. A bureaucrat is sent to a remote island outpost with th
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                                                What starts out as an account of a humdrum administrative assignment is elevated to an existential examination of the meaning of life in Swedish author August Strindberg's novel On the Seaboard. A bureaucrat is sent to a remote island outpost with the task of educating the local fishermen about advances in fishing techniques, but he is unprepared for the pushback he receives from the staunchly traditional community. Less