Limba: Engleza
Data publicării: 2023
Editura: Fitzcarraldo Editions
Tip copertă: Paperback
Nr Pag: 416
Traducatori: Damion Searls
Premii: Nobel Prize for Literature 2023
ISBN: 9781804271018
Dimensiuni: l: 12cm | H: 20cm | 3.2cm | 298g
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 sexual delusions, Hertervig’s fixation on Helene persuades her family that he must leave.