Winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature 2023
A man starts driving without knowing where he is going. He alternates between turning right and left,and finally he gets stuck at the end of a forest road. Soon it gets dark and starts to snow,but instead of going back to find 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 amid the obscurity.
Strange,haunting and dreamlike,A Shining is the latest work of fiction by Jon Fosse,'the Beckett of the twenty-first century'(Le Monde).
Publisher: Fitzcarraldo EditionsISBN: 9781804270639Dimensions: 197 x 125 mm
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'Jon Fosse is a major European writer.'- Karl Ove Knausgaard
'Fosse has been compared to Ibsen and to Beckett,and it is easy to see his work as Ibsen stripped down to its emotional essentials. But it is much more. For one thing,it has a fierce poetic simplicity.'- New York Times
'Reading Fosse... what threatens to be heavy proves lightsome. You put on your boots to wade through the mud and find yourself floating along.... Searls is to Fosse what Anthea Bell is to W. G. Sebald,the best possible intermediary.'- Blake Morrison
'Jon Fosse has managed,like few others,to carve out a literary form of his own.'- Nordic Council Literary Prize
'I hesitate to compare the experience of reading these works to the act of meditation. But that is the closest I can come to describing how something in the critical self is shed in the process of reading Fosse,only to be replaced by something more primal. A mood. An atmosphere. The sound of words moving on a page.'- Ruth Margalit
Jon Fosse
The recipient of the Nobel Prize 2023 in Literature,Jon Fosse is a multi-award-winning Norwegian playwright,novelist and short story writer,best known to English-speaking audiences for his seven-novel sequence Septology.
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