Melancholy / Jon Fosse ; translation by Grethe Kvernes and Damion Searls.
2006
PT8951.16.O73 M4513 2006 (Mapit)
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Title
Melancholy / Jon Fosse ; translation by Grethe Kvernes and Damion Searls.
Author
Fosse, Jon, 1959-
Uniform Title
Melancholia I. English
Edition
1st ed.
ISBN
9781564784513 (pbk.)
1564784517 (pbk.)
1564784517 (pbk.)
Publication Details
Rochester [N.Y.] : Dalkey Archive Press, 2006.
Language
English
Language Note
Translated from the Norwegian.
Description
284 p. ; 22 cm.
Call Number
PT8951.16.O73 M4513 2006
Dewey Decimal Classification
839.82/374
Summary
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.
Added Author
Kvernes, Grethe.
Searls, Damion.
Searls, Damion.
Series
Norwegian literature series.
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