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Melancholy

by Jon Fosse · 1995 · 284 pages

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"Melancholy" takes us deep inside a painter's fragile consciousness, vulnerable to everything but therefore uniquely able to see its beauty and its light.

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Genre
literary fiction
Themes
art
Setting
1990sscandinavia
Audience
adult
Length
medium · 284 pages

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