ARGONAUT BOOKS

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. Reviews 'Jon Fosse is a major European writer.' - Karl Ove Knausgaard, author of My Struggle'Fosse has been compared to Ibsen and to Beckett, and it is easy to see his work as Ibsen stripped down to its emotional essentials. But it is much more. For one thing, it has a fierce poetic simplicity.' - New York Times'Jon Fosse has managed, like few others, to carve out a literary form of his ow...Read More