Jon Fosse’s Melancholy is a repetitive book. The writer, Jon Fosse, repeats himself in Melancholy. It gets pretty exhausting after a while. After a while, it gets pretty exhausting.
It also takes a certain kind of person to live on in the memories of the former townspeople, and since much of Michelle Slatalla’s research was conducted in interviews, only the most extraordinary stories survive
Anthony Trollope remarked that a satirist did best to write little, “or it will seem that his satire springs rather from his own caustic nature than from the sins of the world in which he lives.” Well …
