Melancholy
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Melancholy takes us deep inside a painters fragile consciousness vulnerable to everything but therefore uniquely able to see its beauty and its light. 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 Becketts or Bernhardsbut earthier and funnierthe novel describes a single day of crisis and its repercussions years later for Lars himself and a century later for a writer inspired by Hertervigs vision. Melancholy takes us deep inside a painters fragile consciousness vulnerable to everything but therefore uniquely able to see its beauty and its light.
