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that we present an English edition of a selection of Munch's texts. The English edition includes 68 of Munch's literary sketches and notes on art. A total of 1100 manuscript pages have been translated. The authorised English translations of this selection of Munch's writings are equipped with commentaries and accompanied by supplementary articles and facsimiles of the originals.</p><p>Edvard Munch’s world-renowned artistry would probably not be what it is if it were not for his aptitude for expressing his ideas about his works and endeavours. Edvard Munch’s literary sketches, prose poems and notes related to art represent a wealth of material that not only serves to shed light on Munch's significant artistic oeuvre, they also have literary qualities in their own right. The lyrical prose texts related to his own pictures provide a rich opportunity for immersion into his parallel artistic experimentation in words and images. Well-known examples are the several literary and visual versions of the <em>Scream</em> motif. All the known literary versions are included in this selection.</p><p>We would appreciate any <a href="https://www.emailmeform.com/builder/form/0lNXVedDZGKEnB" title="Feedback for eMunch.no" target="_blank">feedback</a> you might like to contribute.</p><div class="share"><span>Share eMunch.no: </span><ul><li><a class="addthis_button_preferred_1" /></li><li><a class="addthis_button_preferred_2" /></li><li><a class="addthis_button_preferred_3" /></li><li><a class="addthis_button_preferred_4" /></li><li><a class="addthis_button_compact" /></li><li><a class="addthis_counter addthis_bubble_style" /></li></ul><script type="text/javascript">var addthis_config = {"data_track_addressbar":true};</script><script type="text/javascript" src="http://s7.addthis.com/js/250/addthis_widget.js#pubid=hildeboee"> </script></div></div><div id="frontpage_right"><div class="content" id="quotes"><div class="randomcontent group1"><a href="TRANS_HYBRIDMM_T0329.xhtml"><img src="snippets/No-MM_T0329-00-01r.jpg" alt="MM T 329, fol. 1r" width="468px" /></a><p>“Your eyes are as large as half the sky / when you stand near me and your hair with gold dust / your mouth I do not see – see only that you are smiling”</p><div class="article_info">Edvard Munch's writings // <a href="TRANS_HYBRIDMM_T0329.xhtml" title="MM T 329">MM T 329</a></div></div><div class="randomcontent group1"><a href="TRANS_HYBRIDMM_T2547.xhtml"><img src="snippets/No-MM_T2547-000-A1.jpg" alt="MM T 2547, fol. 000-A1" width="468px" /></a><p>“T<span class="majuscle">he</span> K<span class="majuscle">i</span>SS // TWO BU<span class="majuscle">r</span>NING L<span class="majuscle">i</span>PS AGAINST MINE / HEAVEN AND EARTH VANISHED / AND TWO BLACK EYES GAZED INTO / MINE –”</p><div class="article_info">Edvard Munch's writings // <a href="TRANS_HYBRIDMM_T2547.xhtml" title="MM T 2547">MM T 2547</a></div></div><div class="randomcontent group1"><a href="TRANS_HYBRIDMM_N0626.xhtml"><img src="snippets/No-MM_N0626-01.jpg" alt="MM N 626, p. 1" width="468px" /></a><p>“I saw all the people / behind their masks – / smiling, phlegmatic / – subdued faces – / I saw through them / and there was suffering – in them / all –”</p><div class="article_info">Edvard Munch's writings // <a href="TRANS_HYBRIDMM_N0626.xhtml" title="MM N 626">MM N 626</a></div></div><div class="randomcontent group1"><a href="TRANS_HYBRIDMM_T2367.xhtml"><img src="snippets/No-MM_T2367-00.jpg" alt="MM T 2367, p. 1" width="468px" /></a><p>“The Sky suddenly / turned blood-red / I paused, leaned / against the fence tired / to death”</p><div class="article_info">Edvard Munch's writings // <a href="TRANS_HYBRIDMM_T2367.xhtml" title="MM T 2367">MM T 2367</a></div></div><div class="randomcontent group1"><a href="TRANS_HYBRIDMM_T2783.xhtml"><img src="snippets/No-MM_T2783-42.jpg" alt="MM T 2783, p. 42" width="468px" /></a><p>“From Your large / black Eyes invisible / Hands draw / delicate Threads / through the Pupils / of my Eyes / and twine Them / around my Heart”</p><div class="article_info">Edvard Munch's writings // <a href="TRANS_HYBRIDMM_T2783.xhtml" title="MM T 2783">MM T 2783</a></div></div><div class="randomcontent group1"><a href="TRANS_HYBRIDMM_T2761.xhtml"><img src="snippets/No-MM_T2761-32v.jpg" alt="MM T 2761, fol. 32v" width="468px" /></a><p>“It is so strange to be entirely / gone that it <span class="underlined">must</span> that the hour <span class="underlined">must</span> / come when you can say to yourself / now you have 10 now 5 minutes left / and then it will happen and you shall / feel how little by little you become / nothing – // Then you will never again see the green landscapes / It is so strange that so much that is / lovely exists and that one has to leave it.”</p><div class="article_info">Edvard Munch's writings // <a href="TRANS_HYBRIDMM_T2761.xhtml" title="MM T 2761">MM T 2761</a>. The illustrated journal</div></div><div class="randomcontent group1"><a href="TRANS_HYBRIDMM_T2761.xhtml"><img src="snippets/No-MM_T2761-02r.jpg" alt="MM T 2761, fol. 2r" width="468px" /></a><p>“She said / she would be / leaving them / was forced to leave / them – and asked / if they / would be / grieved when / she was gone – ”</p><div class="article_info">Edvard Munch's writings // <a href="TRANS_HYBRIDMM_T2761.xhtml" title="MM T 2761">MM T 2761</a>. The illustrated journal</div></div><div class="randomcontent group1"><a href="TRANS_HYBRIDMM_T2761.xhtml"><img src="snippets/No-MM_T2761-44v.jpg" alt="MM T 2761, fol. 44v–45r" width="468px" /></a><p>“The fact is one sees with different eyes / at different times. One sees differently / in the Morning than in the evening. // The way one sees is also dependent / upon one’s state of mind and how one otherwise / feels.”</p><div class="article_info">Edvard Munch's writings // <a href="TRANS_HYBRIDMM_T2761.xhtml" title="MM T 2761">MM T 2761</a>. The illustrated journal</div></div><div class="randomcontent group1"><a href="TRANS_HYBRIDMM_T2770.xhtml"><img src="snippets/No-MM_T2770-22v.jpg" alt="MM T 2770, fol. 22v" width="468px" /></a><p>“It grew dark once more – a quivering / sparkling darkness – the strip between / the draperies was slightly lighter // I pressed my face into the pillow / How delightful life was”</p><div class="article_info">Edvard Munch's writings // <a href="TRANS_HYBRIDMM_T2770.xhtml" title="MM T 2770">MM T 2770</a></div></div><div class="randomcontent group1"><a href="TRANS_HYBRIDMM_T2785.xhtml"><img src="snippets/No-MM_T2785-001.jpg" alt="MM T 2785, p. 1" width="468px" /></a><p>“The Smile – // The Child’s – The Harlot’s – / The Lady of the Court’s – / The Mephisto smile – The Smile / of well-being – Mona Lisa’s”</p><div class="article_info">Edvard Munch's writings // <a href="TRANS_HYBRIDMM_T2785.xhtml" title="MM T 2785">MM T 2785</a></div></div><div class="randomcontent group1"><a href="TRANS_HYBRIDMM_T2759.xhtml"><img src="snippets/No-MM_T2759-08r.jpg" alt="MM T 2759, fol. 8r–9r" width="468px" /></a><p>“I travelled Home to my / Garden – new Hope was / revived in me – new Strength – / – I then looked about the little / Garden – and observed the budding / Greenery – observed my Flowers / – my Birds – my Animals and // my Sky.”</p><div class="article_info">Edvard Munch's writings // <a href="TRANS_HYBRIDMM_T2759.xhtml" title="MM T 2759">MM T 2759</a></div></div></div></div></div></div></div><script type="text/javascript">randomcontentdisplay.init()</script></div><div id="footer_container" style="background: url(backgrounds/bg_footer.gif) repeat-x left top;"><div id="footer"><div id="left"><p><strong>© Copyright MUNCH</strong><br />MUNCH's photographs are released under <br /><a rel="license" href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/"><img alt="Creative Commons License" style="border-width:0" src="https://i.creativecommons.org/l/by/4.0/88x31.png" /></a><br />See details <a href="ENGABOUT_copyright.xhtml" title="About copyright and permissions">about copyright and permissions</a></p><p>Scholarly Editor and Technical Editor <br />Hilde Bøe <br /><a href="mailto:hilde.boe@munchmuseet.no">hilde.boe@munchmuseet.no</a></p><p>Research Librarian Lasse Jacobsen <br /><a href="mailto:lasse.jacobsen@munchmuseet.no">lasse.jacobsen@munchmuseet.no</a></p><p><a href="https://www.tei-c.org/" title="https://www.tei-c.org/"><img alt="We use TEI, see https://www.tei-c.org/" src="https://www.tei-c.org/About/Badges/We-use-TEI.gif" title="We use TEI" /></a></p></div><div id="center"><p><strong>Our Collaborating Partners</strong><br /><a href="https://www.tate.org.uk/visit/tate-modern" title="Tate Modern">Tate Modern</a>, <a href="https://www.regjeringen.no/no/dep/ud/id833/" title="The Norwegian Ministry of Foreign Affairs">The Norwegian Ministry of Foreign Affairs</a>, <br /><a href="http://www.kulturradet.no/english" title="Arts Council Norway">Arts Council Norway</a>, <a href="https://www.frittord.no/en/" title="The Fritt Ord Foundation">The Fritt Ord Foundation</a>, <br />The City of Oslo Art Collections' Institute of Scholarly Research, <br /><a href="https://www.uio.no/english/" title="University of Oslo">University of Oslo</a> (Unit for Digital Documentation (EDD) and the scholarly edition <a href="https://www.ibsen.uio.no/" title="Henrik Ibsen's Writings">Henrik Ibsen's Writings</a>)</p><p><a class="idemitsu" href="http://www.idemitsu.no/" title="Idemitsu Petroleum Norge"><img src="logos/logo_idemitsu.gif" alt="Idemitsu Petroleum Norge" /></a></p></div><div id="right"><p><strong>Contact</strong><br />We would appreciate your <a href="https://www.emailmeform.com/builder/form/0lNXVedDZGKEnB" title="Feedback for eMunch.no" target="_blank">Feedback</a>! <br />Follow us on the Internet: <br /><a href="https://www.munchmuseet.no/" title="MUNCH's website">MUNCH</a><br /><a href="https://www.google.com/culturalinstitute/collection/the-munch-museum-oslo?projectId=art-project" title="See the art of Edvard Munch on Google Art Project">MUNCH on Google Art Project</a><br /><a href="https://www.facebook.com/edvard.munch" title="Join Edvard Munch on Facebook">Edvard Munch on Facebook</a><br /><a href="https://www.facebook.com/pages/The-Munch-Museum/61967497464" title="Join MUNCH on Facebook">MUNCH on Facebook</a><br /><a href="https://www.youtube.com/user/themunchmuseum" title="See MUNCH's channel on YouTube">YouTube</a></p></div></div></div><script type="text/javascript"> var GoSquared={}; GoSquared.acct = "GSN-403628-P"; (function(w){ function gs(){ w._gstc_lt=+(new Date); var d=document; var g = d.createElement("script"); g.type = "text/javascript"; g.async = true; g.src = "//d1l6p2sc9645hc.cloudfront.net/tracker.js"; var s = d.getElementsByTagName("script")[0]; s.parentNode.insertBefore(g, s); } w.addEventListener?w.addEventListener("load",gs,false):w.attachEvent("onload",gs); })(window); </script></body></html>