Melancholy / Jon Fosse ; translation by Grethe Kvernes and Damion Searls.

Melancholy / Jon Fosse ; translation by Grethe Kvernes and Damion Searls.

Melancholia I. English

First edition.

9781564784513 (pbk.)
1564784517 (pbk.)

Rochester [N.Y.] : Dalkey Archive Press, 2006.

English

Translated from the Norwegian.

284 pages ; 22 cm.

PT8951.16.O73 M4513 2006

839.82/374

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.

Norwegian literature series.

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