Jon Fosse: 10 books

Book cover of Fosse: Plays Six
by Jon Fosse
Language: English
Release Date: April 22, 2014

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...
Book cover of Scenes from a Childhood
by Jon Fosse
Language: English
Release Date: May 2, 2018

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...
Book cover of Ich bin der Wind

Ich bin der Wind

und andere Stücke

by Jon Fosse
Language: German
Release Date: May 21, 2016

Zart und unerbittlich zugleich kreisen Jon Fosses späte Stücke um die Unausweichlichkeit des Todes: Eine Familie muss mit dem Selbstmord der einzigen Tochter fertigwerden (Todesvariationen). Wie Wiedergänger begegnet sich ein hoffnungsfrohes junges Paar in einer Wohnung selbst im hohen Alter (Schlaf)....
Book cover of I Am The Wind
by Jon Fosse
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2012

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...
Book cover of Trilogie

Trilogie

Schlaflos / Olavs Träume / Abendmattigkeit

by Jon Fosse
Language: German
Release Date: May 21, 2016

Das neue Buch des großen Dramatikers Jon Fosse - ein Roman über die Liebe, ein zeitloses Märchen von großer Zartheit und Poesie. Ausgezeichnet wurde es mit dem wichtigsten Literaturpreis der skandinavischen Länder, dem Literaturpreis des Nordischen Rates 2015. Nicht nur Fosses Theaterstücke,...
Book cover of Die Nacht singt ihre Lieder

Die Nacht singt ihre Lieder

und andere Stücke

by Jon Fosse
Language: German
Release Date: May 21, 2016

Die Situationen sind von erschütternder Alltäglichkeit: Ein Paar schottet sich gegen die Außenwelt ab, bis plötzlich ein Nachbar die Ruhe stört (Da kommt noch wer). Ein Mädchen kehrt nach langer Zeit hochschwanger zu seinen überraschten Eltern zurück (Der Name). Eine junge Frau und Mutter...
Book cover of Aliss at the Fire
by Jon Fosse
Language: English
Release Date: September 16, 2010

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...
Book cover of Morgen und Abend
by Jon Fosse
Language: German
Release Date: May 2, 2013

"Ein seltsames großartiges Buch." (Süddeutsche Zeitung) In "Morgen und Abend" erzählt Jon Fosse von einem großen Thema, dem Tod. Die Geschichte, in deren Mittelpunkt ein einfacher norwegischer Fischer steht, dessen Leben hart und erfüllt war, öffnet den Blick auf das, wovon...
Book cover of The Dead Dogs
by Jon Fosse
Language: English
Release Date: March 26, 2014

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...
Book cover of Trilogy
by Jon Fosse
Language: English
Release Date: December 9, 2016

Fosse been shortlisted by odds makers for the Nobel Prize several years in a row.
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