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A Shining
Jon Fosse; Translated by Damion Searls
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Septology
Jon Fosse; Translated by Damion Searls
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Asle is an ageing painter and widower who lives alone on the
southwest coast of Norway. His only friends are his neighbour,
Asleik, a traditional fisherman-farmer, and Beyer, a gallerist who
lives in the city. There, in Bjorgvin, lives another Asle, also a
painter but lonely and consumed by alcohol. Asle and Asle are
doppelgangers - two versions of the same person, two versions of
the same life, both grappling with existential questions. In this
second instalment of Jon Fosse’s Septology, ‘a major work of
Scandinavian fiction’ (Hari Kunzru), the two Asles meet for the
first time in their youth. They look strangely alike, dress
identically, and both want to be painters. At art school in
Bjorgvin, Asle meets and falls in love with his future wife, Ales.
Written in ‘melodious and hypnotic slow prose’, I is Another:
Septology III-V is an exquisite metaphysical novel about love, art,
God, friendship, and the passage of time.
Asle is an ageing painter and widower who lives alone on the
southwest coast of Norway. In nearby Bjørgvin another Asle, also a
painter, is lying in the hospital, consumed by alcoholism. Asle and
Asle are doppelgängers – two versions of the same person, two
versions of the same life, both grappling with existential
questions. In this final instalment of Jon Fosse’s Septology, the
major prose work by ‘the Beckett of the twenty-first century’
(Le Monde), we follow the lives of the two Asles as younger adults
in flashbacks: the narrator meets his lifelong love, Ales; joins
the Catholic Church; and makes a living by trying to paint away all
the pictures stuck in his mind. A New Name: Septology VI-VII is a
transcendent exploration of the human condition, and a radically
other reading experience – incantatory, hypnotic, and utterly
unique.
What makes us who we are? And why do we lead one life and not
another? The year is coming to a close and 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,
Asleik, a traditional fisherman-farmer, and Beyer, a gallerist who
lives in the city. There, in Bjorgvin, lives another Asle, also a
painter but lonely and consumed by alcohol. Asle and Asle are
doppelgangers - two versions of the same person, two versions of
the same life, both grappling with existential questions about
life, death, love, light and shadow, faith and hopelessness.
Written in melodious and hypnotic 'slow prose', The Other Name:
Septology I-II is an indelible and poignant exploration of the
human condition by Jon Fosse, 'a major European writer' (Karl Ove
Knausgaard), in which everything is always there, and past and
present flow together.
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Trilogy (Paperback)
Jon Fosse; Translated by May-Brit Akerholt
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R453
R365
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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
(Wakefulness, Olav's Dreams, and Weariness), Trilogy is a haunting,
mysterious, and poignant evocation of love, for which Fosse
received The Nordic Council's Prize for Literature in 2015.
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Septology (Paperback)
Jon Fosse; Translated by Damion Searls
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R544
R448
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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, Asleik, a traditional fisherman-farmer,
and Beyer, a gallerist who lives in the city. There, in Bjorgvin,
lives another Asle, also a painter but lonely and consumed by
alcohol. Asle and Asle are doppelgangers - two versions of the same
person, two versions of the same life, both grappling with
existential questions about death, love, light and shadow, faith
and hopelessness. Jon Fosse's Septology is a transcendent
exploration of the human condition, and a radically other reading
experience - incantatory, hypnotic, and utterly unique.
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Aliss at the Fire (Paperback)
Jon Fosse; Translated by Damion Searls
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R300
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In her old house by the fjord, Signe lies on a bench and sees a
vision of herself as she was more than twenty years earlier:
standing by the window waiting for her husband Asle, on that
terrible late November day when he took his rowboat out onto the
water and never returned. Her memories widen out to include their
whole life together, and beyond: the bonds of family and the
battles with implacable nature stretching back over five
generations, to Asle's great-great-grandmother Aliss. In Jon
Fosse's vivid, hallucinatory prose, all these moments in time
inhabit the same space, and the ghosts of the past collide with
those who still live on. "Aliss at the Fire" is a visionary
masterpiece, a haunting exploration of love and loss that ranks
among the greatest meditations on marriage and human fate.
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The Dead Dogs (Paperback)
Jon Fosse; Translated by May-Brit Akerholt
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R384
Discovery Miles 3 840
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A young man lives alone with his mother and his beloved dog in a
house in a small village overlooking the fjord. The dog has run off
and gone missing. This has never happened before... In The Dead
Dogs, lives are shockingly disrupted by an event that changes the
direction of their future. Fosse's drama explores life lived in
unexpected ways, with a sense of otherness pervading the present
and colouring the characters' relationships.
Scenes from a Childhood is the latest collection of stories by Jon
Fosse, one of Norway's most celebrated authors and playwrights,
famed for the minimalist and unsettling quality of his writing. In
the title work, a loosely autobiographical narrative covers infancy
to awkward adolescence, unearthing the moments of childhood that
linger longest in the imagination. In 'And Then My Dog Will Come
Back To Me', a haunting and dream-like novella, a dispute between
neighbours escalates to an inexorable climax. Taken from various
sources, the texts gathered here together for the first time
demonstrate that the short story is one of the recurrent modes of
Fosse's imagination, and occasions some of his greatest works.
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.
Jon Fosse has been called 'the Beckett of the 21st century' (Le
Monde), and the Royal Court production of Nightsongs was dubbed
'Waiting for Godot without the gags'. Just as Beckett's plays - and
those of all great playwrights - grew out of their time, and
influenced the current styles of drama, and were part of what
brought their times forward, so do Fosse's plays now. Fosse: Plays
Six marks the culmination of this Norwegian playwright's body of
work for the stage to be published in the English language. The
volume includes the plays Rambuku, Freedom, Over There, These Eyes,
Girl in Yellow Raincoat, Christmas Tree Song and Sea. Rambuku: Two
people. One finds it difficult to speak. The other attempts to
understand. But what is Rambuku? Or who is Rambuku? Freedom: There
is a sense of otherness in Fosse's work that challenges our notions
of a concept such as 'freedom'. This play questions if freedom, as
we often understand it, is perhaps a prison. Over There: A woman
follows a man to his death. But do they see the same images on the
way to the top of the mountain? These Eyes: A snapshot of the
dreamlike state of life. The characters exist in an in-between
space which becomes their reality. Girl in Yellow Raincoat: An
examination of our collective weakness, and the fragility of
children. It asks questions about notions surrounding fear.
Christmas Tree Song: A man celebrates Christmas alone (and reflects
in a somewhat ironic way) on his life as he attempts to put up a
Christmas tree. Sea: A group of people gathered in a kind of limbo,
on a ship, disappearing into something unknown.
Includes A Summer's Day, Dream of Autumn and Winter These three
seasonal plays are typical Fosse, imbuing apparently mundane
situations with an almost hypnotic intensity. In A Summer's Day, an
old widow remembers the day, many years before, when her husband
went out to sea in a terrible storm. In a series of continuous but
chronologically distinct scenes, Dream of Autumn shows a man
unexpectedly meeting an old friend: she will become his second
wife, and cause him to fall out with his family. In Winter a
fascinating but mercurial woman tries to seduce a businessman, but
once he has given up his family and career, he realises may have
mistaken her intentions.
A girl sits on a sofa, not knowing what to do with herself. She
argues with her mother and envies her older sister. She also longs
for her absent father, a seaman. A middle-aged woman paints a
portrait of herself as a young girl, sitting on a sofa, but she's
beginning to doubt her artistic ability. Still at odds with her
sister and her mother and haunted by her dead father, she's unable
to shake the continuing presence of the past in her life -
"Includes Mother and Child, Sleep My Baby Sleep, Afternoon and
Death Variations 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; someone will always insist on one thing, while others
will insist on something else. In Beautiful, the past disrupts the
present when a man and his family go back to his childhood valley.
Conflicts simmer when husband and wife punish each other by
courting his best friend, while his daughter meets a local boy.
Death Variations explores different aspects of the theme of death;
death of love, death of relationship, death of happiness, and
finally the death of a young person. As the characters in Fosse's
plays search for meaning or even just familiarity in their ruptured
lives, their struggles find an echo in the rhythms and repetitions
of their speech."
The wind gathers, rising up suddenly. Two men on a fragile boat, a
trip to sea - a few drinks, a bite to eat - when one of them
decides to push on to the open ocean. Suddenly there they are:
among the distant islands, the threatening fog and gathering swell
of the sea, bound together on an odyssey into the unknown. Jon
Fosse's work includes novels, poetry, essays and books for
children. He is one of the most produced playwrights in Europe and
his plays have been translated into forty languages. Oberon Books
publishes Nightsongs and The Girl on the Sofa, and his other plays
in the following collections: Plays One, Plays Two, Plays Three,
Plays Four and Plays Five. Plays Six is forthcoming in 2012. Oberon
Books also publishes The Luminous Darkness: The Theatre of Jon
Fosse by Leif Zern (translated by Ann Henning-Jocelyn).
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Fosse: Plays Four (Paperback)
Jon Fosse; Translated by Louis Muinzer, May-Brit Akerholt, Ann Henning Jocelyn
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R622
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"Includes the plays And We'll Never be Parted, The Son, Visits and
Meanwhile the lights go down and everything becomes black. In And
We'll Never be Parted, Jon Fosse exploits theatre's unique
potential for ambiguity: as a woman anxiously waits for her
husband, are we watching reality, fantasy, memory, or even a ghost
story? The Son concerns an ageing and isolated couple, whose
long-absent son has a score to settle with their meddlesome
neighbour. In the oblique but psychologically penetrating Visits, a
withdrawn teenager, apparently upset by the attentions of her
mother's boyfriend, turns to her brother for help. The short play
Meanwhile the lights go down and everything becomes black,
exploring the dilemmas of an errant husband, his young lover and
his family, displays Fosse's characteristic compression of
theatrical time and space at its most concentrated."
"Includes the plays Someone is Going to Come, The Guitar Man, The
Name and The Child In Someone is Going to Come the two of them want
to be together, just the two of them, so they leave the city and
buy a remote house by the sea. But is it possible to do what they
want to do? Won't somebody come? Surely someone will come. The
Guitar Man is a poignant monologue in which a busker sings songs to
an audience that is always on the move, always passing him by. The
Name (winner of the Ibsen Prize in Norway) tells the story of an
estranged family forced to live under one roof. When a pregnant
girl and the father of the child have nowhere to live, they move
into her parents' house. But the parents have never met the
father-to-be, and don't yet know about the pregnancy. In The Child
a man and a woman find each other in a bus stop on a rainy night.
They hold each other close. They rent an old house out of town. The
woman becomes pregnant. But the child is too small to survive. In
these four varied plays Jon Fosse's unique linguistic style, at
once poetic and naturalistic, magnifies the love and pain of
ordinary people seeking to live their lives."
Includes the plays Suzannah, Living Secretly, The Dead Dogs, A Red
Butterfly's Wings, Warm, Telemakos and Sleep In their different
ways, these plays are existential suspense stories, centred around
a common concept of time. The past is recreated through present
moments, the future hinted at through shared memories, yet
experienced from different perspectives. Fosse's drama explores
life lived in unexpected ways, with a sense of otherness pervading
the present and colouring the characters' relationships. The whole
life of Suzannah Ibsen unfolds as she waits for her playwriting
husband to come home. In Sleep, one day captures the lives of a
young woman and a young man as they grow into middle-age and old
age. Living Secretly asks questions about how to live with and open
up to one's actions through sequences of time. In The Dead Dogs,
lives are shockingly disrupted by an event that changes the
directions of their future. Warm's characters move back and forth
through time to capture past images and actions, in an effort to
make sense of the present. Telemakos reinvents an old classic from
a contemporary point of view. Fosse's damatic voice is full of
poetic intensity, yet wryly ironic, and with a sense of the comedy
of the human condition. Includes the plays Suzannah, Living
Secretly, The Dead Dogs, Telemakos, Sleep and A Red Butterfly s
Wings.
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