A child who will be named Johannes is born. An old man named Johannes dies. Between these two points,Jon Fosse gives us the details of an entire life,starkly compressed. Beginning with Johannes's father's thoughts as his wife goes into labor,and ending with Johannes's own thoughts as he embarks upon a day in his life when everything is exactly the same,yet totally different,Morning and Evening is a novel concerning the beautiful dream that our lives have meaning.
Called "the new Ibsen," and heralded throughout Europe,Jon Fosse is one of contemporary Norwegian literature's most important writers. Born in 1959,he has published some thirty books of fiction,poetry,drama,and nonfiction since 1983.
Publisher: Dalkey Archive PressISBN: 9781628971088Number of pages: 112Weight: 666 gDimensions: 178 x 127 x 10 mm
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"He has a surgeon's ability to use the scalpel and to cut into the most prosaic,everyday happenings,to tear loose fragments from life,to place them under the microscope and examine them minutely,in order to present them afterward... sometimes so endlessly desolate,dark,and fearful that Kafka himself would have been frightened."
AftenpostenJon 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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