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>>15555771
Munch was a genius

"Abstract things are hard to understand, because they don’t easily
command the reader’s attention, so I’ll use a simple example to make my
abstractions concrete. Let’s suppose that, for some reason or other
(which might be that I’m tired of keeping the books or bored because I
have nothing to do), I’m overwhelmed by a vague sadness about life, an
inner anxiety that makes me nervous and uneasy. If I try to translate this
emotion with close-fitting words, then the closer the fit, the more they’ll
represent my own personal feeling, and so the less they’ll communicate
it to others. And if there is no communicating it to others, it would be
wiser and simpler to feel it without writing it.
But let’s suppose that I want to communicate it to others – to make it
into art, that is, since art is the communication to others of the identity
we feel with them, without which there would be no communication and
no need for it. I search for the ordinary human emotion that will have
the colouring, spirit and shape of the emotion I’m feeling right now for
the inhuman, personal reason of being a weary bookkeeper or a bored
Lisboan. And I conclude that the ordinary emotion which in ordinary
souls has the same characteristics as my emotion is nostalgia for one’s
lost childhood."
- Fernando Pessoa

>>13902718
Edvard Munch.
My favorite painter.

Any Munch fan here?
I read plenty of books but words can hardly describe the intense feelings of anxiety and desperation I go through on a daily basis (at least when I'm out of benzos).
What sets him apart from Van Gogh is that Munch had some sort of obsession with women, like he was always looking for maternal love and some sort of shelter in them but was also aware of women's cruel nature, the so-called femme-fatale. Munch and Ian Curtis from Joy Division are two of my favorite artists.

Can you guys recommend me some quality novels about the relation among the femme-fatale, man's suffering, despair and anxiety?

Thanks.

I really like Edvard Munch's art.
"Vampire" is my favorite piece of art.
The juxtaposition between the femme fatale and man's despair/anxiety in his art is just too relatable.

>“From the moment of my birth, the angels of anxiety, worry, and death stood at my side, followed me out when I played, followed me in the sun of springtime and in the glories of summer. They stood at my side in the evening when I closed my eyes, and intimidated me with death, hell, and eternal damnation. And I would often wake up at night and stare widely into the room: Am I in Hell?”