TY  - BOOK
N2  - Lars Hertervig is a provincial young Norwegian from a poor Quaker background, studying art in Germany and prone to crippling insecurities, sexual obsessions, and terrifying hallucinations. In prose as hypnotic as Beckett's or Berhard's--but earthier and funnier--the novel describes a single day of crisis and its repercussions, years later for Lars himself and a century later for a writer inspired by Hertervig's vision. Melancholy takes us into a painter's fragile consciousness, vulnerable to everything but therefore uniquely able to see its beauty and its light.
AB  - Lars Hertervig is a provincial young Norwegian from a poor Quaker background, studying art in Germany and prone to crippling insecurities, sexual obsessions, and terrifying hallucinations. In prose as hypnotic as Beckett's or Berhard's--but earthier and funnier--the novel describes a single day of crisis and its repercussions, years later for Lars himself and a century later for a writer inspired by Hertervig's vision. Melancholy takes us into a painter's fragile consciousness, vulnerable to everything but therefore uniquely able to see its beauty and its light.
T1  - Melancholy /
DA  - 2006.
CY  - Rochester [N.Y.] :
AU  - Fosse, Jon,
AU  - Kvernes, Grethe.
AU  - Searls, Damion.
ET  - 1st ed.
CN  - PT8951.16.O73
CN  - PT8951.16.O73
PB  - Dalkey Archive Press,
PP  - Rochester [N.Y.] :
LA  - eng
LA  - Translated from the Norwegian.
PY  - 2006.
ID  - 349771
SN  - 9781564784513 (pbk.)
SN  - 1564784517 (pbk.)
TI  - Melancholy /
ER  -