Melancholy I-II: Jon Fosse

Melancholy I-II: Jon Fosse - Jon Fosse

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This novel offers a haunting glimpse into the troubled inner world of Norwegian landscape painter Lars Hertervig. The first part follows a pivotal day in 1853 during his time at the Düsseldorf Arts Academy, where Fosse uses intense, repetitive prose to portray Lars’s fragile mental state as he is expelled from a boardinghouse and mocked by fellow students. Three years later, Lars is in Gaustad Asylum, and the narrative grows even darker as his isolation and disturbing thoughts deepen. The final section, set in the 1990s and focused on a writer descended from Lars, feels less compelling but echoes the same elliptical style. Overall, the book provides only a fragment of Lars’s life but remains a deeply sorrowful and powerful read.

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"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. Oppressed by hallucinations and with nowhere to go, Hertervig shuttles between a cafe, where he endures the mockery of his more sophisticated classmates, and the Winckelmann's apartment, which he desperately tries to re-enter {u2013} a limbo state which leads him inexorably into a state of madness"