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Melancholy, original title Melancholia I, is a 1995 novel by the Norwegian writer Jon Fosse. It is about the Norwegian painter Lars Hertervig (1830–1902) and his time as a young student in Düsseldorf, where he, agonised by unrequited love and doubt in his art, is driven toward a mental breakdown.
1 de ene. de 2001 · Jon Fosse, Damion Searls (Translator), Grethe Kvernes (Translator) "Melancholy" takes us deep inside a painter's fragile consciousness, vulnerable to everything but therefore uniquely able to see its beauty and its light. 284 pages, Paperback. First published January 1, 1995.
Winner of the 2023 Nobel Prize in Literature. 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.
Melancholy is a fictional, wild and feverish invocation of nineteenth-century Norwegian artist Lars Hertervig, who painted light-bathed landscapes, suffered a mental breakdown and died poor in 1902. The winner of the Melsom and Sunnmøre Prizes, it is considered one of the greatest works of an author hailed as “the Beckett of the century ...
8 de mar. de 2023 · 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.
Winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature for 2023"Melancholy" takes us deep inside a painter's fragile consciousness, vulnerable to everything but therefore uniquely able to see its...
1 de nov. de 2006 · Paperback – November 1, 2006. by Jon Fosse (Author), Grethe Kvernes (Translator), Damion Searls (Translator) 3.8 13 ratings. See all formats and editions. Winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature for 2023.
