Melancholy
A Farewell of Poems? Anthony Pellegrino. I'm everything and nothing I'm everyone and no one I'm all that truly is I'm that which will never be... Melancholy A metaphorical gun to my head... If I fell.
Földényi begins with a tour of the history of the word melancholy, from ancient Greece to the medieval era, the Renaissance, and modern times. He finds the meaning of melancholy has always been ambiguous, even paradoxical.
... wanted to fight. I wanted to escape. I wanted the fury I deserved when life took everyone I'd ever loved from me. It was Shadow who wanted to fight. He had a different kind of grief in his heart, a different kind of fury.” “But he never ...
"Földényi's extraordinary Melancholy ... part history of the term melancholy and part analysis of the melancholic disposition, explores many centuries to explore melancholy's ambiguities.
Winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature for 2023 "Melancholy" takes us deep inside a painter's fragile consciousness, vulnerable to everything but therefore uniquely able to see its beauty and its light.