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1 - A New Name: Septology VI-VII

Jon Fosse - Transit Books

WINNER OF THE 2023 NOBEL PRIZE FOR LITERATURE2022 International Booker Prize, Finalist2022 National Book Award, FinalistNew 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...
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2 - The Other Name: Septology I-II

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3 - I is Another: Septology III-V

Jon Fosse - Transit Books

I is Another 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, sleik, a bachelor and traditional Norwegian...
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5 - I Am The Wind (Young Vic)

Jon Fosse - Oberon Books

I Am The Wind is a tale of enduring humanity against insurmountable odds. Two lifelong traveling companions are bound together on a journey across a vast ocean. At once moving and comic, this new work by one of Europe's most widely performed playwrights dramatizes the endless struggle...
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6 - Morning and Evening

Jon Fosse - Dalkey Archive Press

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...
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7 - Melancholy II: A Novel

Jon Fosse - Dalkey Archive Press

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...
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8 - Trilogy (Norwegian Literature)

Jon Fosse - Dalkey Archive Press

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,...
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9 - Fosse: Plays One: Someone is Going to Come Home; The Name; The Guitar Man; The Child (Oberon Modern Playwrights)

Jon Fosse - Oberon Books

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...
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10 - When an Angel Goes Through the Stage and Other Essays: Angel Walks Through the Stage and Other Essays

Milan Jesih - Dalkey Archive Press, 2015.

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...
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11 - Fosse: Plays Three: Mother and Child; Sleep My Baby Sleep; Afternoon; Beautiful; Death Variations (Oberon Modern Playwrights)

Jon Fosse - Oberon Books

Includes Mother and Child, Sleep My Baby Sleep, Afternoon, Beautiful 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....
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12 - Boathouse

Jon Fosse - Dalkey Archive Press

One of Jon Fosse's most acclaimed novels, Boathouse is told from the perspective of an unnamed narrator leading a largely hermit-like existence until he unexpectedly encounters a long-lost childhood friend and his wife. Told partially in a stream-of-consciousness style and with an atmosphere...
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13 - Fosse: Plays Five (Oberon Modern Playwrights)

Jon Fosse - Oberon Books

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...
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14 - Aliss at the Fire

Jon Fosse - Dalkey Archive Press; First Edition edition

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...
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15 - Fosse: Plays Two (Oberon Modern Playwrights)

Jon Fosse - Oberon Books

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...
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16 - The Dead Dogs (Oberon Modern Plays)

Jon Fosse - Oberon Books

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....
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17 - Melancholy

Jon Fosse - Dalkey Archive Press

In real life, Lars Hertervig would become, along with Edvard Munch, one of Norway s most renowned painters--but in Melancholy he is a promising young artist tortured by doubt and unhinged by unrequited love. After agonizing over his work, drinking alone in a student bar, and obsessively...
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18 - Fosse: Plays Six: Rambuku; Freedom; Over There, These Eyes; Girl in Yellow Raincoat; Christmas Tree Song; Sea (Oberon Modern Playwrights)

Jon Fosse - Oberon Books

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...
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19 - Nightsongs (Oberon Modern Plays)

Jon Fosse - Oberon Books

They have a child and life changes. He can't go out and she can't stay in. He writes words that no one will publish and she takes a lover. "I don't know what it is/ that always make something happen/ But it must be something/ because something always happens/ I don't...
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20 - Fosse: Plays Four (Oberon Modern Playwrights)

Jon Fosse - Oberon Books

Fosse's characteristic compression of theatrical time and space at its most concentrated
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21 - The Girl on the Sofa (Oberon Modern Plays)

Jon Fosse - Oberon Books

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...
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