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3 - I is Another: Septology III-V
Jon Fosse - Transit Books
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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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4 - A New Name: Septology VI-VII
JON FOSSE - Transit Books
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Longlisted for the 2022 International Booker Prize"With Septology, Fosse has found a new approach to writing fiction, different from what he has written before and - it is strange to say, as the novel enters its fifth century - different from what has been written before. Septology... |
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6 - Morning and Evening
Jon Fosse - Dalkey Archive Press
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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
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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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12 - Boathouse
Jon Fosse - Dalkey Archive Press
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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
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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
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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... |
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15 - Fosse: Plays Two (Oberon Modern Playwrights)
Jon Fosse - Oberon Books
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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
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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.... |
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17 - Melancholy
Jon Fosse - Dalkey Archive Press
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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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19 - Nightsongs (Oberon Modern Plays)
Jon Fosse - Oberon Books
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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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