Jon Fosse

Nobelistin suurteoksen ensimmäinen osa.”Ainutlaatuinen ja liikuttava lukuelämys... Fosse on meidän aikamme suuri kirjailija, joka kuvaa valoa ja pimeyttä.” – The New York TimesTaidemaalari Asle asuu syrjäisessä kylässä vuonon rannalla. Hän maalaa mieleensä painuneita kuvia samanlaisen välttämättömyyden ajamana kuin hänen naapurinsa kalastaa. Aslen kaima, myöskin taidemaalari, asuu kaupungissa ja maalaa silloin kun on selvin päin. He voisivat olla sama mies, mutta toinen heistä on löytänyt uskon, toinen ei pysty lopettamaan juomista. Aslen yrittäessä pelastaa kaimaansa hänen silmiensä eteen nousee kuvia, pimeydestä loistavaa valoa, ja hypnoottisen kehän lailla mennyt ja nykyinen kietoutuvat toisiinsa.Norjalaisen Jon Fossen (s. 1959) tuotantoon kuuluu lukuisia näytelmätekstejä sekä romaaneja. Hänen teoksiaan on käännetty yli 40 kielelle, ja hänen näytelmiään esitetään ympäri maailman. Vuonna 2023 Fosselle myönnettiin Nobelin kirjallisuuspalkinto.Septologia on Fossen seitsenosainen, kriitikoiden ylistämä magnum opus. Yli tuhatsivuinen romaani kertoo taiteen luonteesta ja Jumalasta, alkoholismista ja ajan kulumisesta. Teos julkaistaan kolmena niteenä, samoin kuin Norjassakin. Ensimmäinen osa Toinen nimi: Septologia I–II ilmestyi Norjassa vuonna 2019*”Vain Jon Fosse osaa kirjoittaa tällä tavalla.” – Verdens Gang”Suurenmoinen lukukokemus.” – BOK365”Fosse kirjoittaa nerokkaasti siitä, kuinka taide luo valoa pimeydestä... Helppolukuinen ja ymmärrettävä, ja on kaunis kokemus hengittää Fossen rytmissä... Seksikästä proosaa.” – Dagsavisen

PREMIO NOBEL DE LITERATURA 2023 Una obra maestra de Jon Fosse y una de sus novelas m s queridas. Una conmovedora meditaci n sobre la familia, el matrimonio, la p rdida y el destino. «La obrade Fosse es un enigma que da vida y esperanza a quien la lee. Ilumina el alma humana como solo lo hacen los elegidos . Manuel Vilas Sola en su vieja casa de la costa noruega, Signe mira por la ventana y se ve a s misma veinte a os atr s, sentada ante la misma ventana, mientras espera el regreso de su marido, Asle, durante una terrible tarde de finales de noviembre en la que l se subi a su bote de remos para no regresar. En una suerte de caleidoscopio, las im genes de aquel tr gico d a se superponen a visiones del pasado y su vida en com n, pero tambi n con recuerdos que abarcan cinco generaciones de un clan familiar y su lucha constante contra la inclemente naturaleza que les rodea, hasta llegar a Ales, la tatarabuela de Asle. En la prosa v vida y alucinatoria de Jon Fosse, todos esos momentos habitan el mismo espacio, y los fantasmas del pasado colisionan con los vivos. Ales junto a la hoguera es una visionaria obra maestra, una inquietante exploraci n del amor y de la p rdida que se encuentra entre las m s bellas meditaciones sobre el matrimonio y el destino humano. ENGLISH DESCRIPTION From the 2023 winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature, a haunting masterpiece exploring love, loss, and human fate. 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 include their whole life together, and beyond: the bonds of family and the battles with implacable nature stretching back over five generations, to Asle's great-great-grandmother Aliss. In Jon Fosse's vivid, hallucinatory prose, all these moments in time inhabit the same space, and the ghosts of the past collide with those who still live on. Aliss at the Fire is a visionary masterpiece, a haunting exploration of love and loss that ranks among the greatest meditations on marriage and human fate.

“Jon Fosse’s work captures the essence of human fragility and connection with stunning simplicity, where the pauses speak as loudly as the words.” – Nobel Prize Committee, 2023 The latest play collection from Nobel Prize-winning playwright Jon Fosse including six plays published in English for the first time. Strong Wind is a play about time, love, jealousy, fear of heights, and the urge for death, almost as in a bad dream. It is unmistakably a Fosse play, but at the same time is new and different, more reflective, containing within it an almost twisted truth. Inside the Black Forest follows a younger man who is bored and decides to go out for a drive. He drives and drives, and he ends up on an isolated forest road –where he gets stuck. The young man gets it into his head that he’ll go into the dark forest to look for help. In Everyman, we encounter a haunting loneliness, a longing for companionship, and sorrow over not being able to reach those we are closest to—our immediate family. As it Was is a monologue about ageing, life, and death. As always, Jon Fosse writes about everyday life, but also about the bigger questions. The play is about the decrepit body and ageing, time and memories, life and death. Play The Game, originally commissioned as an audio play, is about a child who wants to get an adult to play a game with constantly changing rules. The Play, a brand new work not yet published in Norway about a man and woman’s encounter with two actors as they wait for a boat. Translated by May-Brit Akerholt.

The latest play collection from Nobel Prize-winning playwright Jon Fosse including six plays published in English for the first time. Strong Wind is a play about time, love, jealousy, fear of heights, and the urge for death, almost as in a bad dream. It is unmistakably a Fosse play, but at the same time is new and different, more reflective, containing within it an almost twisted truth. Inside the Black Forest follows a younger man is bored and decides to go out for a drive. He drives and drives, and he ends up on an isolated forest road –where he gets stuck. The young man gets it into his head that he’ll go into the dark forest to look for help. In Everyman, we encounter a haunting loneliness, a longing for companionship, and sorrow over not being able to reach those we are closest to—our immediate family. As it Was is a monologue about ageing, life, and death. As always, Jon Fosse writes about everyday life, but also about the bigger questions. The play is about the decrepit body and ageing, time and memories, life and death. Play The Game, originally commissioned as an audio play, a child wants to get the adult to play a game with constantly changing rules. The Play, a brand new work not yet published in Norway.

Includes the plays And We’ll Never be Parted, The Son, Visits and Meanwhile the lights go down and everything becomes blackIn 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?The Son concerns an ageing and isolated couple, whose long-absent son has a score to settle with their meddlesome neighbour.In the oblique but psychologically penetrating Visits, a withdrawn teenager, apparently upset by the attentions of her mother’s boyfriend, turns to her brother for help.The short play Meanwhile the lights go down and everything becomes black, exploring the dilemmas of an errant husband, his young lover and his family, displays Fosse’s characteristic compression of theatrical time and space at its most concentrated.

Includes Mother and Child, Sleep My Baby Sleep, Afternoon, Beautiful and Death VariationsMother and Child is the intense journey of two individuals trying to connect. Like strangers on a first date, mother and son stalk each other, confronted with a shared history they cannot ignore. In Sleep My Baby Sleep, three people are in a strange unnamed place; through visual and linguistic association they try to decipher their predicament. In Afternoon, characters come and go in a flat that is for sale; they will never understand each other; someone will always insist on one thing, while others will insist on something else. In Beautiful, the past disrupts the present when a man and his family go back to his childhood valley. Conflicts simmer when husband and wife punish each other by courting his best friend, while his daughter meets a local boy. Death Variations explores different aspects of the theme of death; death of love, death of relationship, death of happiness, and finally the death of a young person. As the characters in Fosse’s plays search for meaning or even just familiarity in their ruptured lives, their struggles find an echo in the rhythms and repetitions of their speech.

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.

Includes A Summer's Day, Dream of Autumn and WinterThese 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.In a series of continuous but chronologically distinct scenes, Dream of Autumn shows a man unexpectedly meeting an old friend: she will become his second wife, and cause him to fall out with his family.In Winter a fascinating but mercurial woman tries to seduce a businessman, but once he has given up his family and career, he realises may have mistaken her intentions.

Includes the plays Someone is Going to Come, The Guitar Man, The Name and The ChildIn 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

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. Fosse: Plays Six marks the culmination of this Norwegian playwright’s body of work for the stage to be published in the English language.The volume includes the plays Rambuku, Freedom, Over There, These Eyes, Girl in Yellow Raincoat, Christmas Tree Song and Sea.Rambuku: Two people. One finds it difficult to speak. The other attempts to understand. But what is Rambuku? Or who is Rambuku? Freedom: There is a sense of otherness in Fosse’s work that challenges our notions of a concept such as ‘freedom’. This play questions if freedom, as we often understand it, is perhaps a prison.Over There: A woman follows a man to his death. But do they see the same images on the way to the top of the mountain?These Eyes: A snapshot of the dreamlike state of life. The characters exist in an in-between space which becomes their reality. Girl in Yellow Raincoat: An examination of our collective weakness, and the fragility of children. It asks questions about notions surrounding fear.Christmas Tree Song: A man celebrates Christmas alone (and reflects in a somewhat ironic way) on his life as he attempts to put up a Christmas tree.Sea: A group of people gathered in a kind of limbo, on a ship, disappearing into something unknown.

Jon Fosse (född 1959) är en av världens mest spelade samtida dramatiker. 2023 tilldelades han Nobelpriset i litteratur "för hans nyskapande dramatik och prosa som ger röst åt det osägbara. Fosse skriver dessutom poesi, essäer och prosa.Här är det mest ambitiösa urvalet av Fosses pjäser på svenska, sammanlagt 16 pjäser varav en publiceras för första gången på något språk. Alla översättningar har reviderats och anpassats till den norska utgåvan av Fosses Teaterstykke. Författaren och kritikern Leif Zern har skrivit ett förord till utgåvan.Det är kanske främst genom pjäserna som Fosse utarbetar sin säregna litterära stil. Många av pjäserna låter sig läsas som vore det en roman.Band I innehåller: Någon kommer att komma, Namnet, Gitarrmannen, Barnet och Sonen.

Jon Fosse (född 1959) är en av världens mest spelade samtida dramatiker. Han har dessutom skrivit poesi, essäer och prosa. I tre band presenteras ett stort utval av Fosses pjäser i svensk översättning. Alla översättningar har reviderats och anpassats till den norska utgåvan av Fosses "Teaterstykke". Författaren och kritikern Leif Zern har skrivit förordet. Band i innehåller: Någon kommer att komma, Namnet, Gitarrmannen, Barnet och Sonen.

Sidan 1970-åra har kunstnaren Oddvar Torsheim alltid hatt ei skisseblokk med seg, anten han er heime, ute på dei daglege spaserturane sine, i butikken eller på reise. I desse noterer han flittig innfall, små tekstar og skisser som seinare kan bli kunstverk. Skisseblokkene, til saman over 400, har han tatt vare på. No har Torsheim gått gjennom dette rikhaldige materialet saman med bokdesignar Silje Nes. Fleire tusen sider har blitt komprimert til ei samling skisser, der du vil dra kjensel på nokre som kjende verk, medan andre syner meir ukjende sider ved den mangfaldige og folkekjære multikunstnaren Oddvar Torsheim. Ulyzes presenterer kunstnaren sitt ville samansurium av tankar og idear i teikningar og strek, men også gjennom ei lengre samtale med Torsheim sin gode ven Jon Fosse. Dei to kunstnarsjelene møtes ei langhelg i Austerrike for å veksle ord om livet, døden, kyrkja og kemnaren, og lesaren kjem tett på dei to i denne personlege praten.

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. Fosse: Plays Six marks the culmination of this Norwegian playwright’s body of work for the stage to be published in the English language. The volume includes the plays Rambuku, Freedom, Over There, These Eyes, Girl in Yellow Raincoat, Christmas Tree Song and Sea. Rambuku: Two people. One finds it difficult to speak. The other attempts to understand. But what is Rambuku? Or who is Rambuku? Freedom: There is a sense of otherness in Fosse’s work that challenges our notions of a concept such as ‘freedom’. This play questions if freedom, as we often understand it, is perhaps a prison. Over There: A woman follows a man to his death. But do they see the same images on the way to the top of the mountain? These Eyes: A snapshot of the dreamlike state of life. The characters exist in an in-between space which becomes their reality. Girl in Yellow Raincoat: An examination of our collective weakness, and the fragility of children. It asks questions about notions surrounding fear. Christmas Tree Song: A man celebrates Christmas alone (and reflects in a somewhat ironic way) on his life as he attempts to put up a Christmas tree. Sea: A group of people gathered in a kind of limbo, on a ship, disappearing into something unknown.

"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? The Son concerns an ageing and isolated couple, whose long-absent son has a score to settle with their meddlesome neighbour. In the oblique but psychologically penetrating Visits, a withdrawn teenager, apparently upset by the attentions of her mother's boyfriend, turns to her brother for help. The short play Meanwhile the lights go down and everything becomes black, exploring the dilemmas of an errant husband, his young lover and his family, displays Fosse's characteristic compression of theatrical time and space at its most concentrated."

"Includes Mother and Child, Sleep My Baby Sleep, Afternoon and Death Variations Mother and Child is the intense journey of two individuals trying to connect. Like strangers on a first date, mother and son stalk each other, confronted with a shared history they cannot ignore. In Sleep My Baby Sleep, three people are in a strange unnamed place; through visual and linguistic association they try to decipher their predicament. In Afternoon, characters come and go in a flat that is for sale; they will never understand each other; someone will always insist on one thing, while others will insist on something else. In Beautiful, the past disrupts the present when a man and his family go back to his childhood valley. Conflicts simmer when husband and wife punish each other by courting his best friend, while his daughter meets a local boy. Death Variations explores different aspects of the theme of death; death of love, death of relationship, death of happiness, and finally the death of a young person. As the characters in Fosse's plays search for meaning or even just familiarity in their ruptured lives, their struggles find an echo in the rhythms and repetitions of their speech."

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. In a series of continuous but chronologically distinct scenes, Dream of Autumn shows a man unexpectedly meeting an old friend: she will become his second wife, and cause him to fall out with his family. In Winter a fascinating but mercurial woman tries to seduce a businessman, but once he has given up his family and career, he realises may have mistaken her intentions.

"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."

Suurromaani Septologian kolmas ja viimeinen nide. Rakkaus, kaipuu ja yksinäisyys kietoutuvat hypnoottiseksi sielunmessuksi nobelistin pääteoksen päättävässä Uudessa nimessä. Taidemaalari Asle asuu syrjäisessä kylässä vuonon rannalla. Hän nousee naapurinsa veneeseen lähteäkseen joulunviettoon, ja veneen lipuessa vuonon laineille Aslen ajatukset lipuvat sairaalassa makaavaan kaimaan ja menneisyyteen. Kummankin Aslen elämän kudelma piirtyy kokonaisuudessaan esiin - rakkaudet ja menetykset, mieleen painuneet kuvat jotka on maalattava pois, pimeässä loistava valo ja lopulta pelastus, kääntymys uskoon siinä missä kaima kääntyy pullon puoleen. Norjalaisen Jon Fossen (s. 1959) tuotantoon kuuluu lukuisia näytelmätekstejä sekä romaaneja. Hänen teoksiaan on käännetty yli 40 kielelle, ja hänen näytelmiään esitetään ympäri maailman. Vuonna 2023 Fosselle myönnettiin Nobelin kirjallisuuspalkinto. Septologia on Fossen seitsenosainen, kriitikoiden ylistämä magnum opus. Teos julkaistaan suomeksi kolmena niteenä, samoin kuin Norjassakin. Kolmas nide Uusi nimi: Septologia VI-VII palkittiin Norjassa sekä Bragella että Kritikerprisenillä. Romaanin englanninnos oli ehdolla kolmen merkittävän käännöskirjallisuuspalkinnon saajaksi: Booker Prize (Iso-Britannia), Dublin Literary Award (Irlanti) ja National Book Award (Yhdysvallat). * ”Kaunis päätösosa taiteesta, kaipauksesta ja intohimosta. Jon Fosse tuo mestariteoksensa Septologian päätökseen huomionarvoisella taidolla.” - Bergens Tidende ”Fossen tuotannon, ja uskallan väittää että koko norjalaisen kirjallisuuden, merkittävimpiä teoksia.” - Vårt Land