✨Sách - Melancholy I-II by Damion Searls (UK edition, paperback)

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Publisher: Independent Alliance

Origin: United Kingdom (Imported)

ISBN 13: 9781804270301

Condition: Brandnew

Binding: paperback

Pages: 360

Dimensons: 198 x 132 x 30 | 400 (gram)

Melancholy I-II is a fictional invocation of the nineteenth-century Norwegian artist Lars Hertervig, who painted luminous landscapes, suffered mental illness and d poor in 1902.

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’s mind as the events of one day precipitate his mental breakdown. A student of Hans Gude at the Academy of Art in Düsseldorf, Hertervig is paralyzed by anxieties about his talent and is overcome with love for Helene Winckelmann, his landlady’s daughter. Marked by inspiring lyrical flights of passion and enraged ual delusions, Hertervig’s fixation on Helene persuades her family that he must leave. Oppressed by hallucinations and with nowhere to go, Hertervig shuttles between a cafe, where he endures the mockery of his more sophisticated classmates, and the Winckelmann’s apartment, which he desperately tries to re-enter – a limbo state which leads him inexorably into a state of madness. Published here in one volume in English for the first time, Melancholy I-II is a major novel by ‘the Beckett of the twenty-first century’ (Le Monde).

Review Quote ‘Jon Fosse is a major European writer.’ — Karl Ove Knausgaard, author of My Struggle

Review Quote ‘Fosse has been compared to Ibsen and to Beckett, and it is easy to see his work as Ibsen stripped down to its emotional essentials. But it is much more. For one thing, it has a fierce poetic simplicity.’ — New York Times

Review Quote ‘Jon Fosse has managed, like few others, to carve out a literary form of his own.’ — Nordic Council Literary Prize

Biographical Note Jon Fosse was born in 1959 on the west coast of Norway and is the recipient of countless prestigious prizes, both in his native Norway and abroad. Since his 1983 fiction debut, Raudt, svart [Red, Black], Fosse has written prose, poetry, essays, short stories, children’s books, and over forty plays, with more than a thousand productions performed and translations into fifty languages. His latest prose work, Septology, was published by Fitzcarraldo Editions in 2022. Melancholy I, originally published in 1995 and followed by Melancholy II in 1996, was awarded the Melsom Prize and the Sunnmøre Prize.