„Fosse Jon” – książki

Pisarstwo Fossego pochłania czytelnika, jest czymś, w czym czytelnik znika niby wiatr w ciemnościach. () Jego głosu nie sposób pomylić - Karl Ove Knausgard Pierwszy tom prozatorskiego opus magnum jednego z najważniejszych współczesnych pisarzy. Malarz i wdowiec Asle mieszka samotnie w domu w Dylgja. Jedynymi osobami, z którymi wciąż się widuje, są jego sąsiad, rybak Asleik i Beyer, właściciel galerii w Bjorgvin, kilka godzin jazdy na południe. W Bjorgvin mieszka także drugi Asle, jego sobowtór, a może cień albo druga wersja tego samego życia? Pierwszy z nich stał się religijny, rzucił picie i odniósł sukces, drugiemu przypadł trudniejszy los. Wszystko powoli zmierza do spotkania obu malarzy. W tej porywającej rytmem, hipnotycznej prozie Fosse stawia fundamentalne pytania: co czyni nas tym, kim jesteśmy? Dlaczego prowadzimy takie, a nie inne życie? Z pomocą retrospekcji norweski mistrz portretuje życie obu malarzy, tworząc przejmujący obraz kondycji ludzkiej. Septologia opowiada o sprawach najważniejszych: o naturze sztuki, Bogu, przemijaniu, nałogach, miłości i śmierci.

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. A student of Hans Gude at the Academy of Art in Dusseldorf, Hertervig is paralyzed by anxieties about his talent and is overcome with love for Helene Winckelmann, his landlady's daughter. Marked by inspiring lyrical flights of passion and enraged sexual delusions, Hertervig's fixation on Helene persuades her family that he must leave. Oppressed by hallucinations and with nowhere to go, Hertervig shuttles between a cafe, where he endures the mockery of his more sophisticated classmates, and the Winckelmann's apartment, which he desperately tries to re-enter - a limbo state which leads him inexorably into a state of madness. Published here in one volume in English for the first time, Melancholy I-II is a major novel by 'the Beckett of the twenty-first century' (Le Monde).

Winner of the 2023 Nobel Prize in Literature Asle is an ageing painter and widower who lives alone on the southwest coast of Norway. In nearby Bj?rgvin another Asle, also a painter, is lying in the hospital, consumed by alcoholism. Asle and Asle are doppelgängers ? two versions of the same person, two versions of the same life, both grappling with existential questions. In this final instalment of Jon Fosse?s Septology, the major prose work by ?the Beckett of the twenty-first century? (Le Monde), we follow the lives of the two Asles as younger adults in flashbacks: the narrator meets his lifelong love, Ales; joins the Catholic Church; and makes a living bytrying to paint away all the pictures stuck in his mind. A New Name: Septology VI-VII is a transcendent explorationof the human condition, and a radically other reading experience ? incantatory, hypnotic, and utterly unique. ?Fosse?s portrait of memory remarkably refuses. It will not be other than: indellible as paint, trivial as nail clippings, wound like damp string. This book reaches out of its frame like a hand.? ? Jesse Ball, author of Census ?Jon Fosse is a major European writer.? ? Karl Ove Knausgaard, author of My Struggle

Winner of the 2023 Nobel Prize in Literature What makes us who we are? And why do we lead one life and not another? The year is coming to a close and Asle, an ageing painter and widower who lives alone on the southwest coast of Norway, is reminiscing about his life. His only friends are his neighbour, ?sleik, a traditional fisherman-farmer, and Beyer, a gallerist who lives in the city. There, in Bj?rgvin, lives another Asle, also a painter but lonely and consumed by alcohol. Asle and Asle are doppelgängers ? two versions of the same person, two versions of the same life, both grappling with existential questions about life, death, love, light and shadow, faith and hopelessness. Written in melodious and hypnotic ?slow prose?, The Other Name: Septology I-II is an indelible and poignant exploration of the human condition by Jon Fosse, ?a major European writer? (Karl Ove Knausgaard), in which everything is always there, and past and present flow together.

Winner of the 2023 Nobel Prize in Literature Co-funded by the Creative Europe Programme of the European Union Scenes from a Childhood is the latest collection of stories by Jon Fosse, one of Norway?s mostcelebrated 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 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. Taken from various sources, the texts gathered here together for the first time demonstrate that the short story is one of the recurrent modes of Fosse?s imagination, and occasions some of his greatest works. ?Jon Fosse is a major European writer.? ? Karl Ove Knausgaard, author of My Struggle ?The Beckett of the twenty-first century.? ? Le Monde

Winner of the 2023 Nobel Prize in Literature 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. A student of Hans Gude at the Academy of Art in Düsseldorf, Hertervig is paralyzed by anxieties about his talent and is overcome with love for Helene Winckelmann, his landlady?s daughter. Marked by inspiring lyrical flights of passion and enraged sexual delusions, Hertervig?s fixation on Helene persuades her family that he must leave. Oppressed by hallucinations and with nowhere to go, Hertervig shuttles between a cafe, where he endures the mockery of his more sophisticated classmates, and the Winckelmann?s apartment, which he desperately tries to re-enter ? a limbo state which leads him inexorably into a state of madness. Published here in one volume in English for the first time, Melancholy I-II is a major novel by ?the Beckett of the twenty-first century? (Le Monde). ?Jon Fosse is a major European writer.? ? Karl Ove Knausgaard, author of My Struggle