Most Popular Books by Jon Fosse

Le héros de ce roman, Lars Hertervig (1830-1902), est aujourd’hui considéré comme un des plus grands noms de la peinture nordique. Très tôt, dès ses études à Düsseldorf, il fut victime de troubles nerveux. Après un séjour en asile, brisé, il vécut jusqu’à sa mort de charité publique. Comme s’il tentait de capter cette lumière qui illumine les toiles du peintre, avec une grande économie de moyens, une sorte de minimalisme emporté, Jon Fosse fait revivre le martyre d’Hertervig en deux monologues intérieurs où une écriture enveloppante, répétitive, rythmée, développe jusqu’à l’angoisse l’obsession amoureuse et la tresse cruellement à la volonté créatrice. Prix Nobel de Littérature 2023

Includes the plays Suzannah, Living Secretly, The Dead Dogs, A Red Butterfly''s Wings, Warm, Telemakos and SleepIn 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.

Bli kjend med Fosses dramatikk. Fosse hadde ein ekstrem dramatisk raptus frå tidleg i 90-åra og nesten tjue år fram i tid, og dramatikken hans femner om tjueåtte skodespel, åtte kortare stykke og tre librettoar. Men kva teaterstykke bør ein lese og kjenne til? Kor skal ein byrje? Jon Fosse har her valt ut fem av dei beste stykka sine, fem stykke som representerer ulike delar av den dramatiske produksjonen hans: "Nokon kjem til å kome", "Namnet", "Draum om hausten", "Svevn" og "Eg er vinden". "Nokon kjem til å kome" er det aller første teaterstykket Fosse skreiv. Stykka i denne boka er frå ulike tidspunkt i den dramatiske raptusen, fra. det første stykket Fosse skreiv i 1993, til "Eg er vinden", som hadde urpremiere i 2007. Her får vi både teaterstykke som i det ytre synest som realistiske familiedrama, og tekstar som er meir lyriske, eksperimentelle - nærmast teaterdikt. Jon Fosse har sagt at han skriv om livet, døden, kjærleiken og åndelege sider ved tilværet, og for han handlar dramatikk mellom anna om det usynleges nærvær. Karakterane er ofte historielause og namnlause, språket er kvardagsleg, musikalsk og repeterande. Boka har eit forord av den finlandssvenske skodespelaren Stina Ekblad. Her kan du bli ordentleg kjend med Fosses dramatikk!

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. Cast sizes: 3,6,1,6