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  Melancholy (Paperback) By (author) Jon Fosse, By (author) Grethe Kvernes, By (author) Damion Searls

  

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  Short Description for MelancholyLars 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 Bernhard'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 inspi...
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  • Publisher: Dalkey Archive Press
  • Published: 01 December 2006
  • Format: Paperback 284 pages
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  • Categories: Contemporary Fiction
  • ISBN 13: 9781564784513 ISBN 10: 1564784517
  • Sales rank: 205,303

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Full description for Melancholy

• 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 Bernhard'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 deep inside a painter's fragile consciousness, vulnerable to everything but therefore uniquely able to see its beauty and its light.