5 Books by Jon Fosse (.ePUB)
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5 Books by Jon Fosse
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Overview: JON FOSSE (b. 1959) is a Norwegian author and dramatist. His oeuvre spans a variety of genres including a wealth of plays, novels, poetry collections, essays, children’s books and translations. He was awarded the 2023 Nobel Prize in Literature “for his innovative plays and prose which give voice to the unsayable.”
Fosse is one of the most widely performed playwrights in the world and his work has been translated into more than fifty languages. His writing is chararcterised by repetition, inner monologue, and a musical, evocative style. Thirty plays are included in this collection.
Although best known internationally as a playwright, Fosse has always written in other genres at an unusually high level. His novels include MELANCHOLY I (1995) and MELANCHOLY II (1996), about the real Norwegian painter Lars Hertervig. TRILOGY (2014) consists of three parts (Wakefulness, Olav’s Dreams, and Weariness) and is a beautiful and disturbing story about a fiddler and his girlfriend, for which Fosse won the Nordic Council’s Literature Prize in 2015.
Fosse’s longest work to date is SEPTOLOGY (2019–21), which he started during a break from playwrighting and after converting to Catholicism in 2013. Fosse has called his method of writing Septology “slow prose”: a style of shifting levels, scenes, and reflections, the exact opposite of fast-paced drama. It is a suggestive, magnificent narrative about the nature of art and God, about alcoholism, friendship, love, and the passage of time.
His most recent prose work, the novel A SHINING (2023), is a luminous narrative exploring the boundary between life and death.
Genre: Fiction > General Fiction/Classics
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