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    "description": "Taking place, like Melancholy, over the course of a single day, we are treated to the thoughts of Hertervig\u2019s sister Oline, carrying on with her life in the absence of her beloved\u2014if eccentric\u2014brother. She recalls their childhood under a domineering father, recalls Hertervig\u2019s difficulties fitting in, and likewise Hertervig the man: poor, always hovering on the brink, fanatical about painting and his own perceived shortcomings both as an artist and human being. In the same meticulous and hypnotic prose for which Fosse is famous, Melancholy II serves not only as an investigation into the \u201ccollateral damage\u201d of art, but into a master\u2019s tools and obsessions. ",
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