Melancholy I-II by Jon Fosse

Melancholy I-II

Melancholia #01-02

Jon Fosse with Damion Searls (Translator)

416 pages first pub 1995 (editions)

fiction art contemporary reflective sad slow-paced
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Melancholy I-II is a fictional invocation of the nineteenth-century Norwegian artist Lars Hertervig, who painted luminous landscapes, suffered mental illness and died poor in 1902. In this wild, feverish narrative, Jon Fosse delves into Hertervig'...

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