Septology

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Laureate 2014 (Press Release)" (PDF). City of Strasbourg. 19 November 2014 . Retrieved 21 December 2014. Plays Three/ translated by May-BritAkerholt. –London :Oberon, 2004 [Includes Mother and Child, Sleep My Baby Sleep, Afternoon, Beautiful, and Death Variations] Morgen undAbend/ Georg FriedrichHaas ;libretto von JonFosse. DeutscheErstaufführing.DeutschenOperBerlinam29. April 2016 Fosse stopped going to bars; he almost entirely stopped watching productions of his own plays, stopped doing readings and being on the stage. He chose another, less social life. He hasn’t had a drink in seven years. Yes, my favorite of all audiobooks is [Tarjei] Vesaas’ reading of The Birds. It’s beautiful. I’m happy to listen to audiobooks when I drive long distances, like between Oslo and Bergen.

Någon kommer att komma/ översättning av Lars Norén. –Norsborg:Riksteatern, 2002. – Originaltitel:Nokonkjemtilåkomme:skodespel No, that wouldn’t work. Some stop writing, and others write for as long as they can. I need to have a project, without one I get restless and unhappy.Even though Fosse has said that his playwriting days are over, he has written another play, called Sterk vind (Strong Wind ). It will be performed at Det Norske Teatret in 2020 or 2021. Morgen und Abend/ Georg FriedrichHaas ;libretto by Jon Fosse. Opera performed at the Royal Opera House, London on 13 November 2015 Lemanuscritdeschiens. III.Quellemisère!/traduitdunorvégienpar Terje Sinding. –Paris :L’Arche, 2002. –Traductionde: Fy å fy

Keyton, David. "Norwegian author Jon Fosse wins the Nobel Prize in literature". ABC News . Retrieved 5 October 2023. Lenom; L’enfant/traduitdunorvégienpar Terje Sinding. –Paris :L’Arche, 1998. –Traductionde:Namnet ;Barnet The Other Name not only shares the themes of Fosse’s previous works, but some of the characters as well. Another Asle appears in the stories of Scenes from a Childhood, in which Fosse says his goal was to “write about my own childhood, the way things really happened. That turned out to be impossible for me... I cannot help writing fiction.” There’s yet another Asle (and an Alida, Ales, and Åsleik, near anagrams of one another) in Trilogy, and in Aliss at the Fire; all are of the same general disposition, if one can attribute “character traits” to any of the specters in Fosse’s work. Is it possible that Fosse is writing the same novel over and over, mining the same ideas into annihilation, in the tradition of Thomas Bernhard or László Krasznahorkai? The fractal-like repetition of ideas, names, and images across Fosse’s works create an unmistakable tapestry, engendered in part by his distinct style that eschews punctuation and dialogue markers, meanders in and out of digression, and ignores tense conventions with the rhythm of breath. You wrote about an artist who thinks a lot about God and who struggles with alcohol. How close is this to your own life? The translation by Damion Searls is deserving of special recognition. His rendering of this remarkable single run-on sentence over three volumes is flawless. The rhythms, the shifts in pace, the nuances in tone are all conveyed with masterful understatement. The Septology series is among the highlights of my reading life.’Hva er det med Jon Fosse?". www.bt.no (in Norwegian Bokmål). 8 May 2005 . Retrieved 5 October 2023. Plays Six/ translated by May-BritAkerholt, Neil Howard. – Oberon, 2014. [IncludesRambuku, Freedom, Over There, These Eyes, Girl in Yellow Raincoat, Christmas Tree Song, and Sea] Matin etsoir/traduitdunorvégienpar Terje Sinding. –Belval:Circé, 2003. –Traductionde: Morgonogkveld Nora :toolate : opera iénakt/ komponist: Du Wei ; librettist: JonFosse; bygget over Henrik Ibsens Etdukkehjem. – Nordnorskoperaogsymfoniorkester, 2015 No, it’s simply my language. It’s what I learned from my first day in school until I left, so for some 12 or 13 years. It’s a minority language, and that’s only an advantage for me as a writer. It’s almost never used in commercials or business the way it is in academia, literature, and in church. Since it isn’t used too much, it has a kind of freshness to it that Bokmål doesn’t have. Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari wrote this book called Kafka: Toward a Minor Literature [1975]. When I read it, I felt that writing in Nynorsk was very similar to Kafka’s situation.

Sonen/ översättning av Svante Aulis Löwenborg. –Borås :Borås Stadsteater, 2002. – Originaltitel: Sonen Although I started out as a poet and novelist, my breakthrough came when I started writing plays. For 15 years, I basically only wrote for the theater. It was a huge surprise to me, and, in the beginning, a bit of an adventure. I wrote plays mainly during the summer. The rest of the year, I spent a lot of time traveling to theaters abroad, giving interviews, etc.I started writing the novel there, during a couple of very hot summer weeks, and the rest of it I wrote in a small Austrian town on the outskirts of Vienna. I started writing around four or five in the evening and wrote until nine in the morning. Hermansson, Kristina, Ett rum för sig : subjektsframställning vid 1900-talets slut: Ninni Holmqvist, Hanne Ørstavik, Jon Fosse, Magnus Dahlström och Kirsten Hammann. [Diss.] – Göteborg : Makadam, 2010 a b c d e f g h Storfjell, Troy (2004). "Jon Fosse". In Thresher, Tanya (ed.). Dictionary of Literary Biography: Twentieth-Century Norwegian Writers. Vol.297. Farmington Hills, MI: Gale. pp.95–101. ISBN 0-7876-6834-6. Yes, yes, yes. I have always been an adaptable person. I don’t have to live in a particular place. I have lived on the road since I was thirty because of the theater. I’ve had many different homes, Winner of the 2023 Nobel Prize in Literature announced". The Independent. 5 October 2023 . Retrieved 5 October 2023.

There are not many characters in Fosse’s Septology, but those that do appear all seem to have doppelgangers or doubles in some way. There is the obvious doubling of Asle and his namesake, but other characters like Asle’s mysterious lover, Guro, his neighbor Åsleik and his late wife Alse seem to occupy multiple bodies who often share similar or identical names. At times, this can feel confusing, especially if you are hoping for a clear-cut narrative, but Fosse’s ambiguity shows how life repeats itself. No one is really, truly distinctive in their struggles or circumstances in Fosse’s world, but their soul or their spirit is what makes them unique. “I think that I, what’s I in me, can never die because it was never born,” Asle says, creating a stark distinction between his body and his soul, which always actively seems like it is in the process of becoming. I am the Wind/ English language version by Simon Stephens. –London :Oberon, 2011. – Translation of:Egervinden Varno, David (1 February 2023). "NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE ANNOUNCES FINALISTS FOR PUBLISHING YEAR 2022". National Book Critics Circle . Retrieved 3 February 2023. This was all a while ago now. Years. Almost everything has changed. Jon Fosse will soon turn sixty. In the last forty years of his life he has written extensively: novels, poems, plays, children’s books, essays, journalism; he has written adaptations and has translated works into Norwegian. His own work has been translated into more than fifty languages and has been mentioned in connection with the Nobel Prize for Literature. This coming autumn will be special for Jon Fosse. He will be, among other things, celebrated with the International Fosse Festival at Det Norske Teatret (a theater in Oslo), and The Other Name⁠ —the first book in the Septology series⁠—will be published both in Norway and internationally, including in the UK by Fitzcarraldo Editions, during the Frankfurt Book Fair.

The Girl on the Sofa/ in an English version by DavidHarrower ;from a literal translation by Neil Howard and TonjeGotschalksen. –London :Oberon, 2002. – Translation of:Jentaisofaen Melancholia I, del 1/forfatter: MortenCranner.Nationaltheatret, Oslo 29. april 2005.Basertpåversjonenavstykketsomblesendti NRKradioteatret18. april 2004 To me it is very important to, so to speak, let the writing write itself. I prefer not to plan anything, I just sit down and start writing, and then just keep on writing. I am all the time of course listening to what I have already written, but also to what I write. I have no idea where what I write comes from. Creamer, Ella (5 October 2023). "Jon Fosse wins the 2023 Nobel prize in literature". The Guardian . Retrieved 5 October 2023.