Melancholy II - (Norwegian Literature) by Jon Fosse (Paperback)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Book </b></p></br></br>"Originally published in Norwegian as Melancholia II by Det Norske Samglet, Oslo, 1996"--Title page verso.<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br><p>Not so much a sequel as an alternate perspective, Jon Fosse's coda to his brilliant and much-lauded Melancholy picks up the story of tormented landscape painter Lars Hertervig in 1902, shortly after his death. Taking place, like Melancholy, over the course of a single day, it treats us to the thoughts of Hertervig's sister, carrying on with her life in the absence of her eccentric brother. She recalls their childhood under a domineering father, remembering Hertervig's difficulties fitting in, and likewise Hertervig the man: poors, always hovering on the brink, fanatical about painting and his own perceived shortcomings as an artist and human being. In the same hypnotic prose for which Fosse is famous, Melancholy II serves as an investigation not only into the "collateral damage" wrought by art and artists, but into a master's tools and obsessions as well.<p/><br></br><p><b> Review Quotes </b></p></br></br><br><P>A unique, painful and beautiful piece in which the unorthodox and talented genius of Fosse and his subject seem to merge in the short span of the narrator's shrinking memory.--Hans Rollman"PopMatters" (01/01/0001)<br><p/><br></br><p><b> About the Author </b></p></br></br><P>Called "the new Ibsen" in the German press, and heralded throughout Western Europe, Jon Fosse is one of contemporary Norwegian literature's most important writers. Born in 1959, he has published some thirty books of fiction, poetry, drama, and nonfiction since 1983.
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