Penguin Classics cover

[CyberGhostface]

I was bored and I made this...

[drakkar]

Ahh, the Norwegian version!

[johnajvide]

Funny thing is, I actually refer quite extensively to this painting in Let the old dreams die.
The narrator goes to Oslo to see the Munch museum and is struck by especially two paintings: The Kiss, and this one.
The story is finished, by the way. Will be out coming spring.
But be prepared: Oskar and Eli are two very minor characters in that story. But we do get a slightly different view of what happened in Blackeberg in 1981, and what happened afterwards. Enough said.
Take care, you all.

John

[nithr]

But be prepared: Oskar and Eli are two very minor characters in that story.

don't like the sound of that at all to be honest.

[drakkar]

Oh, thanks It has been some slight worry about it wouldn't come at all...

[Lacenaire]

Munch's painting is often said to have been inspired by Baudelaire's poem "Vampire" from "The Flowers of Evil", which I quoted in the "Favorite Poems" thread (even though it is not my favourite poem). Munch was certainly familiar with "Les Fleurs du Mal"; in fact he was commissioned to illustrate the volume (although nothing came out of this).

On the other hand, Munch always denied that the painting represented a vampire, claiming that it was "just a woman kissing a man on the neck".

I still don't think that the passionate sexuality of the poem and the paining (and the fairly clear hint of prostitution in both) fits LTROI, although I guess it fits "Twilight" even less.

[xbox fan]

spring seems so far away. glad it's finished.

[Microwave Jellyfish]

The story is finished, by the way. Will be out coming spring.
But be prepared: Oskar and Eli are two very minor characters in that story. But we do get a slightly different view of what happened in Blackeberg in 1981, and what happened afterwards. Enough said.

Goody-goody. Don't mind if the kids (?) are just minor characters, anything about them from the main source of our infection will be satisfying. Tool'd up with Swedish dictionary, I'm going to read it slowly and painfully, but soon after its release.

[StefL]

Oskar and Eli are two very minor characters in that story. But we do get a slightly different view of what happened in Blackeberg in 1981, and what happened afterwards.

Now, this is most intriguing. I'd like to remind everyone of the reference to LDRKI that exists in the story "By på höjden" (Vertical village) in Pappersväggar (Paper walls). There we are told in a minor passage "Joel walked past the old pool house which had been boarded shut since the terrible things that had happened there twenty years earlier. Some madman who thought he was a vampire had murdered two children and kidnapped a third." (Or something like that, I'm quoting out of my memory here).
It will be most interesting to see whether the new story elaborates on this theme or if John means something entirely different

[drakkar]

I love this twist. This is something totally unexpected, and I wish John continues with that for a loong loong time.
My first thought (OK, second actually) was that hell, the story is six years old, time to move on.