Melancolía

Premio Nobel de literatura 2023 «Jon Fosse es uno de los m?s importantes escritores europeos . -Karl Ove Knausg?rd



D?sseldorf, 1853. El joven artista Lars Hertervig, alumno de Hans Gude en la Academia de Arte de D?sseldorf, est? encerrado en su habitaci?n, paralizado por la ansiedad que le provocan las clases de arte y el amor irracional que siente hacia Helene Winckelmann, la hija de su casera. La fijaci?n de Lars por Helene, marcada por alucinaciones y furiosos delirios sexuales, obliga a la familia de la joven a expulsarlo de la habitaci?n donde se hospeda. Sin ning?n lugar ad?nde ir, Hertervig deambula entre un caf? donde soporta las burlas de sus compa?eros de la academia y el apartamento de los Winckelmann, en el que intenta desesperadamente ser admitido de nuevo: una especie de limbo que lo lleva a un inexorable estado de locura. Melancol?a es una ficcional, salvaje y febril invocaci?n del artista noruego del siglo -- Lars Hertervig, que pint? paisajes ba?ados de luz, sufri? una enfermedad mental y muri? pobre en 1902. Galardonada con el Melsom Prize y el Sunnm re Prize, est? considerada una de las grandes novelas de quien ha sido llamado «el Beckett de siglo -- (Le Monde). ENGLISH DESCRIPTION Winner of the 2023 Nobel Prize in Literature



D?sseldorf, 1853. Lars Hertervig, a student of Hans Gude at the city's Academy of Art, is locked in his room, paralyzed by anxiety over his classes and his irrational passion for Helene Winckelmann, the daughter of his landlady. Disturbed by Lars's obsession with Helene, which manifests itself in hallucinations and unhinged sexual delusions, the family soon evicts him. With nowhere to go, Lars spends his time at a caf?, where he is taunted by his classmates from the academy, while desperately trying to be accepted back into the Winckelmann's apartment. It is a state of limbo that drives him inexorably into madness. Melancholy is a fictional, wild and feverish invocation of nineteenth-century Norwegian artist Lars Hertervig, who painted light-bathed landscapes, suffered a mental breakdown and died poor in 1902. The winner of the Melsom and Sunnm re Prizes, it is considered one of the greatest works of an author hailed as "the Beckett of the century" (Le Monde).