Jon Fosse

WINNER OF THE 2023 NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATURE

A man starts driving without knowing where he is going. He alternates between turning right and left, and ultimately finds himself stuck at the end of a forest road. It soon grows dark and begins to snow. But instead of searching for help, he ventures, foolishly, into the dark forest. Inevitably, the man gets lost, and as he grows cold and tired, he encounters a glowing being

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WINNER OF THE 2023 NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATURE

Longlisted for the 2020 International Booker Prize

"Fosse's fusing of the commonplace and the existential, together with his dramatic forays into the past, make for a relentlessly consuming work: already Septology feels momentous."—The Guardian

The Other Name follows the lives of two men living close to each other

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WINNER OF THE 2023 NOBEL PRIZE FOR LITERATURE

2022 International Booker Prize, Finalist
2022 National Book Award, Finalist
New York Times Editors' Choice

"With Septology, Fosse has found a new approach to writing fiction, different from what he has written before and—it is strange to say, as the novel enters its fifth century—different from what has been written before. Septology

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Winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature for 2023 Jon Fosse said farewell to theory early in his career, choosing poetry, fiction, and drama as his mediums of choice. Here, however, in a selection from his two books of essays, we see just how incisive a critic and memoirist he can be. Not only including a generous portion of Fosse's writing on literature and theater--including the irresistable "Thomas Bernhard and His Grandfather"--this collection...

From Jon Fosse, winner of the 2023 Nobel Prize for Literature, comes an aching exploration of life, death, time, memory, and the artistic temperament.Initially published separately and brought together here in a single volume, Melancholy I & II are essential entries in the oeuvre of one of the world's most celebrated living writers. Fosse explores the life and work of Lars Hertervig (1830-1902), a troubled painter of dreamlike landscapes who was...

The essential lecture delivered by the 2023 Nobel Laureate in Literature, published for the first time in a collectible edition."If there's any metaphor I would use for the act of writing, it would have to be listening," says Jon Fosse in A Silent Language, the lecture he delivered after being awarded the 2023 Nobel Prize in Literature. When he writes, Fosse explains, he listens for texts that exist somewhere outside of himself in order to transcribe...

The Other Name follows the lives of two men living close to each other on the west coast of Norway. The year is coming to a close and Asle, an aging painter and widower, is reminiscing about his life. He lives alone, his only friends being his neighbor, Åsleik, a bachelor and traditional Norwegian fisherman-farmer, and Beyer, a gallerist who lives in Bjørgvin, a couple hours' drive south of Dylgja, where he lives. There, in Bjørgvin, lives another...

"Fosse's fusing of the commonplace and the existential, together with his dramatic forays into the past, make for a relentlessly consuming work: already Septology feels momentous."-The GuardianThe Other Name follows the lives of two men living close to each other on the west coast of Norway. The year is coming to a close and Asle, an aging painter and widower, is reminiscing about his life. He lives alone, his only friends being his neighbor, Åsleik,...

En este final de la Septología de Jon Fosse, la obra en prosa más importante de este autor considerado como "el Beckett del siglo XXI" (Le Monde), el protagonista, Asle, dividido en sus dos vidas posibles, se enfrenta al conjunto de su vida. ¿Qué actitud ante la vida le ha conducido a la soledad extrema, a la búsqueda espiritual? Jon Fosse nos lleva a un nivel de lectura radical, hipnótica, única. Asle se ve a sí mismo en su pasado, en todos...

Trilogía es un libro hipnótico. Para Jon Fosse escribir es como rezar, y para el lector, leer Trilogía significa entrar en una profundidad desconocida. Con un lenguaje sencillo y un narrador único, Fosse nos cuenta la historia de una pareja de adolescentes que va a tener un hijo y que intenta sobrevivir sin nada en un mundo hostil. Con esta historia entendemos que significa no tener nada y la mirada despiadada de la sociedad, pero también revivimos...