Maurice Monologue from There Are Crimes and Crimes

From There Are Crimes and Crimes by August Strindberg

male · anguished · 1:09 min

I have grown bad in these twenty-four hours, and suspicious also, so I guess I'll soon be left to myself. And who wants to keep company with a murderer? (HENRIETTE: But you have been cleared of the charge.) (Picks up a newspaper) By the police, yes, but not by public opinion. Here you see the murderer Maurice Gerard, once a playwright, and his mistress, Henriette Mauclerc-- (HENRIETTE: O my mother and my sisters--my mother! Jesus have mercy!) And can you see that I actually look like a murderer? And then it is suggested that my play was stolen. So there isn't a vestige left of the victorious hero from yesterday. In place of my own, the name of Octave, my enemy, appears on the bill-boards, and he is going to collect my one hundred thousand francs. O Solon, Solon! Such is fortune, and such is fame! You are fortunate, Adolphe, because you have not yet succeeded.

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