Winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature for 2023
"Melancholy" takes us deep inside a painter's fragile consciousness, vulnerable to everything but therefore uniquely able to see its beauty and its light.
WINNER OF THE 2023 NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATURE
Winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature for 2023
WINNER OF THE 2023 NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATURE
The lives of an aging painter and his doppelganger converge and diverge in an elegiac meditation on our unlived lives, in the first volume of the celebrated Norwegian writer's Septology.
Winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature for 2023
Winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature for 2023
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.
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 of drama, and were part of what brought their times forward, so do Fosse's plays now.
Winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature for 2023
Jon Fosse said farewell to theory early in his career, choosing poetry, fiction, and drama as his mediums of choice. Here, however, in a selection from his two books of essays, we see just how incisive a critic and memoirist he can be.
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.
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 storm.
Includes Mother and Child, Sleep My Baby Sleep, Afternoon, Beautiful and Death Variations
Includes the plays And We'll Never be Parted, The Son, Visits and Meanwhile the lights go down and everything becomes black
In And We'll Never be Parted, Jon Fosse exploits theatre's unique potential for ambiguity: as a woman anxiously waits for her husband, are we watching reality, fantasy, memory, or even a ghost story?
Published to coincide with the English-language premiere of I Am The Wind at the Young Vic (April 2011) Includes: Suzannah, Living Secretly, The Dead Dogs, Telemakos, Sleep and A Red Butterfly's Wings.
Jon Fosse is one of Norway's most celebrated authors and playwrights, with more than a thousand productions performed and translations into fifty languages.
His work has been likened to that of Samuel Beckett or Harold Pinter.
Septology is considered his masterpiece, which we will release in three volumes in 2020, 2021, 2022, in conjunction with Fitzcarraldo in the UK.
Melancholy I-II is a fictional invocation of the nineteenth-century Norwegian artist Lars Hertervig, who painted luminous landscapes, suffered mental illness and died poor in 1902. In this wild, feverish narrative, Jon Fosse delves into Hertervig's mind as the events of one day precipitate his mental breakdown.
Winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature for 2023
"Melancholy" takes us deep inside a painter's fragile consciousness, vulnerable to everything but therefore uniquely able to see its beauty and its light.
Winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature for 2023
