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Melancholy
- Title
- Melancholy / Jon Fosse ; translation by Grethe Kvernes and Damion Searls.
- Author
- Fosse, Jon, 1959-
- Publication
- Rochester [N.Y.] : Dalkey Archive Press, 2006.
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- Description
- 284 pages; 22 cm.
- 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.
- Series Statement
- Norwegian literature series
- Uniform Title
- Melancholia I. English
- Norwegian literature series
- Alternative Title
- Melancholia I.
- Subject
- Genre/Form
- Fictional Work
- Fiction.
- Biographical fiction.
- Romans.
- Language (note)
- Translated from the Norwegian.
- ISBN
- 1564784517
- 9781564784513
- LCCN
- 2006016852
- 9781564784513
- OCLC
- ocm70129031
- 70129031
- SCSB-1423881
- Owning Institutions
- Princeton University Library