How long does it take to read Melancholy II?
Jon Fosse, Eric Dickens
Melancholy II by Jon Fosse, Eric Dickens takes about 1 hour 47 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
About 1 hour 47 minutes
An evening's read
First published 2014. 97 pages, about 26,675 words.
4 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 2 hours 58 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 1 hour 47 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 1 hour 7 minutes |
The page count is the median across 2 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
"Not so much a sequel as an alternate perspective, Jon Fosse's coda to his brilliant and much-lauded Melancholy picks up the story of tormented landscape painter Lars Hertervig in 1902, shortly after his death. Taking place, like Melancholy, over the course of a single day, it treats us to the thoughts of Hertervig's sister, carrying on with her life in the absence of her eccentric brother. She recalls their childhood under a domineering father, remembering Hertervig's difficulties fitting in, and likewise Hertervig the man: poor, always hovering on the brink, fanatical about painting and his own perceived shortcomings as an artist and human being. In the same hypnotic prose for which Fosse is famous, Melancholy II serves as an investigation not only into the 'collateral damage' wrought by art and artists, but into a master's tools and obsessions as well."--Publisher's website.
Subjects: Fiction, historical, Fiction, Family, Sisters, Brothers, Death
