Jon Fosse - Plays and Fiction (6 books)

JON FOSSE (b. 1959) is a Norwegian author and dramatist who has written novels, short stories, poetry, children's books, essays and plays. He is one of the most produced playwrights in Europe and his work has been translated into more than forty languages. He is frequently mentioned as a candidate for the Nobel Prize in Literature.

According to Aftenposten, Fosse "has a surgeon's ability to use the scalpel and to cut into the most prosaic, everyday happenings, to tear loose fragments from life, to place them under the microscope and examine them minutely, in order to present them afterward. . . sometimes so endlessly desolate, dark, and fearful that Kafka himself would have been frightened."

Fourteen of Fosse's plays are collected here. "The Dead Dogs" (2004) explores life lived in unexpected ways, with a sense of otherness pervading the present and colouring the characters’ relationships. PLAYS THREE (2004) includes "Mother and Child", "Sleep My Baby Sleep", "Afternoon", "Beautiful", and "Death Variations". PLAYS SIX (2014) includes "Rambuku", "Over There", "These Eyes", "Girl in Yellow Raincoat", "Christmas Tree Song", "Sea", and "Freedom".

ALISS AT THE FIRE (2005) is a circuitous, claustrophobic tale that begins in 2002, rewinds to 1979, then farther back to 1897 where a woman stands at a window watching as a storm kicks up, waiting for her husband to return from taking a rowboat out on the fjord. The immense burden of family history weighs heavily on each generation as ghosts, memories, and tragedies collide to effects both confounding and enlightening.

SCENES FROM A CHILDHOOD (2018), his latest collection of stories in English, is taken from various sources. In the title work, a loosely autobiographical narrative covers infancy to awkward adolescence, unearthing the moments of childhood that linger longest in the imagination. In "And Then My Dog Will Come Back To Me", a haunting and dream-like novella, a dispute between neighbours escalates to an inexorable climax.
The following books are in ePUB format unless otherwise noted:

* Aliss at the Fire (Dalkey Archive, 2010). Damion Searls, trans.
* Dead Dogs, The (Oberon, 2014). May-Brit Akerholt, trans.
* I Am the Wind (Oberon, 2012). Simon Stephens, trans.
* Plays 3 (Oberon, 2004). May-Brit Akerholt, trans. -- PDF
* Plays 6 (Oberon, 2014). May-Brit Akerholt and Neil Howard, trans.
* Scenes from a Childhood (Fitzcarraldo, 2018). Damion Searls, trans. -- ePUB/PDF

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