Knausgaard’s analysis of The Scream shows how it evokes a world subsumed in a crazy, distorted perspective without any sane vantage point to shelter viewers, an example of Munch’s ability to visually capture emotions. The results are uneven, by turns illuminating and obscure. Norwegian novelist Knausgaard ( My Struggle) ponders many Munch paintings (he includes reproductions), delves into his lonely life-the deaths of family members in early life left him gun-shy about relationships and perpetually alienated, Knausgaard writes-and conducts lengthy interviews with artists about Munch’s influence and legacy. Norwegian modernist painter Edvard Munch, whose masterpiece The Scream is one of art’s best-known depictions of an unhinged psychological freak-out, is a prosaic yet mysterious figure in this knotty aesthetic-biographical study.
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