Munch's writings, very personal, poetic and mystical lashes to illustrate the thought of one of the most important artists of the twentieth century.

Edvard Munch is one of the masterpieces of European painting of the twentieth century, both for his personal style, which had a decisive influence on the German expressionist painters and Central European art in general, as the topics and the spirit that animates his artistic production: existential angst, illness, death, tormented sexuality and an overall hypersensitivity to echo the questions that modern man about life arises is. Munch was also a prolific writer. The texts collected in this volume provide a good sample of his literary production and shed light on the concerns and main obsessions of its author, thus constituting an instrument of great efficiency to better understand his art.