Melancholy II
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…
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Produktdetails
Weitere Autoren: Dickens, Eric (Übers.)
- ISBN: 978-1-56478-904-4
- EAN: 9781564789044
- Produktnummer: 14708822
- Verlag: Dalkey Archive Pr
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2015
- Seitenangabe: 97 S.
- Masse: H21.6 cm x B13.9 cm x D1.2 cm 159 g
- Gewicht: 159
- Sonstiges: Ab 22 J.
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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. In 2000, his novel Melancholy won the Melsom Prize, and Fosse was awarded a lifetime stipend from the Norwegian government for his future literary efforts.
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