Jon Fosse
1) Trilogy
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Series
Language
English
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Description
"Trilogy is Jon Fosse's critically acclaimed, luminous love story about Asle and Alida, two lovers trying to find their place in this world. Homeless and sleepless, they wander around Bergen in the rain, trying to make a life for themselves and the child they expect. Through a rich web of historical, cultural, and theological allusions, Fosse constructs a modern parable of injustice, resistance, crime, and redemption. Consisting of three novellas...
2) Septology
Author
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"What makes us who we are? And why do we lead one life and not another? Asle, an ageing painter and widower who lives alone on the southwest coast of Norway, is reminiscing about his life. His only friends are his neighbour, ¿sleik, a traditional fisherman-farmer, and Beyer, a gallerist who lives in the city. There, in Bj̨rgvin, lives another Asle, also a painter but lonely and consumed by alcohol. Asle and Asle are doppelgñgerstwo versions of...
3) Plays three
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
Description
"Mother and Child is the intense journey of two individuals trying to connect. Like strangers on a first date, mother and son stalk each other, confronted with a shared history they cannot ignore. In Sleep my Baby Sleep, three people are in a strange unnamed place: through visual and linguistic association they try to decipher their predicament. In Afternoon, characters come and go in a flat that is for sale: they will never understand each other;...
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2014.
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
"Not so much a sequel as an alternate perspective, Jon Fosse's coda to his brilliant and much-lauded Melancholy picks up the story of tormented landscape painter Lars Hertervig in 1902, shortly after his death. Taking place, like Melancholy, over the course of a single day, it treats us to the thoughts of Hertervig's sister, carrying on with her life in the absence of her eccentric brother. She recalls their childhood under a domineering father, remembering...
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