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Un bambino viene al mondo; si chiamera Johannes, sara un pescatore. Un uomo ormai anziano muore; si chiamava Johannes, era un pescatore. Mattino e sera si estende tra i due estremi della vita, come tra i due estremi del giorno, tra i pensieri di un padre che vede nascere suo figlio e quelli di un vecchio che affronta le cose di ogni giorno, nel suo ultimo giorno, cose sempre identiche, riconoscibili, eppure definitive. Con una lingua vivida e aderente ai dettagli più minuti dell'esistenza e della sua bellezza, percorrendo le domande più importanti di ogni uomo - le più semplici e assolute - Jon Fosse scrive una novella di incredibile potenza poetica, che conferma ancora una volta il talento del più grande scrittore norvegese contemporaneo.

Der erste Band von Jon Fosses international gefeierter "Heptalogie" uber einen Kunstler und verschiedene Arten zu leben, uber Liebe, Glauben und das Vergehen der Zeit.Asle, ein Maler, lebt seit dem Tod seiner Frau allein in einem kleinen Ort bei Bjrgvin, einer Stadt an der Sudwestkuste Norwegens. Er will nicht mehr malen, was er sieht, sondern will bis zu einem Punkt vordringen, der hinter dem Gegenstandlichen liegt. In seinem gerade vollendeten Olgemalde etwa, auf dem sich zwei breite Pinselstriche kreuzen, bringt er ein besonderes Licht zum Vorschein, ein beinahe gottliches Leuchten.Seine einzigen Freunde sind sein alter Nachbar sleik, ein Fischer und Kleinbauer, der Junggeselle ist, sowie Beyer, sein in der Stadt lebender Galerist. Dort lebt auch ein anderer Asle, der ebenfalls Maler, aber dem Alkohol verfallen und sehr einsam ist zwei Versionen eines Menschen, zwei Versionen eines Lebens. Dass sie einander in der Weihnachtszeit begegnen, ist das Herzstuck des Romans.Vor dem Hintergrund der norwegischen Landschaft, dem Meer, den Fjorden, erzahlt Jon Fosse in diesen ersten beiden Teilen seines groen Romanprojekts "Heptalogie" auf eindringliche, geradezu betorende Weise von den existentiellen Fragen des Lebens, von Liebe und Einsamkeit, Leben und Tod, von Licht und Schatten, Glaube und Hoffnungslosigkeit - und vom Wesen der Kunst.

Un cimetière a la fin de l'automne. Un homme et une femme se croisent sur un banc. On devine une relation amoureuse passée - ou a venir? Autour d'eux tout le monde s'affaire, s'agite, le temps semble s'accélérer, toujours en suspens. Que s'est-il passé? Des fantômes ou flottements de présences nichés dans les souvenirs, qui évoquent ces « voix des limbes » dont parlait Jacques Lassalle.

Il volume raccoglie i primi lavori di Jon Fosse, autore tra i piu importanti e influenti del teatro contemporaneo: E non ci separeremo mai (Og aldri skal vi skiljast) - Qualcuno verra (Nokon kjem til komme) -Il nome (Namnet)Gia in questi scritti vengono tuttavia rivelati gli elementi fondanti della poetica del drammaturgo norvegese: una scrittura secca e affilata, in cui il ritmo serrato, fatto di non-punteggiatura e intonazioni volutamente ambigue delle battute, contraddistingue la parabola esistenziale di personaggi isolati, in continua ricerca del proprio Io e di una redenzione nel difficile legame con l''Altro.

In Morgen und Abend erzahlt Jon Fosse von einem groen Thema, dem Tod. Die Geschichte, in deren Mittelpunkt ein einfacher norwegischer Fischer steht, dessen Leben hart und erfullt war, offnet den Blick auf das, wovon heute kaum noch jemand spricht. Eine kunstvoll rhythmisierte, ganz schlichte Erzahlung, die bezaubert und beruhrt.Vermutlich hat es in den letzten Jahren kein traurigeres, aber zugleich auch kein frohlicheres, trostenderes Buch gegeben uber den Morgen des Lebens und den Abend des Todes. (Elke Heidenreich)

Le héros de ce roman, Lars Hertervig (1830-1902), est aujourd'hui considéré comme un des plus grands noms de la peinture nordique. Très tôt, dès ses études a Düsseldorf, il fut victime de troubles nerveux. Après un séjour en asile, brisé, il vécut jusqu'a sa mort de charité publique. Comme s'il tentait de capter cette lumière qui illumine les toiles du peintre, avec une grande économie de moyens, une sorte de minimalisme emporté, Jon Fosse fait revivre le martyre d'Hertervig en deux monologues intérieurs où une écriture enveloppante, répétitive, rythmée, développe jusqu'a l'angoisse l'obsession amoureuse et la tresse cruellement a la volonté créatrice.

Cosa ci rende quello che siamo? Perché conduciamo la nostra vita e non un’altra? Un nuovo anno sta per concludersi e Asle, un anziano pittore rimasto vedovo, ripensa alla sua storia. L’uomo vive da s

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 Bjrgvin, lives another Asle, also a painter but lonely and consumed by alcohol. Asle and Asle are doppelgangers 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.

Jon Fosse es dramaturgo, narrador, pero, ante todo, poeta. Es un poeta cuya obsesión es la luz: la luz diáfana del norte de Europa, casi imposible, la luz de la soledad, la que ilumina el mundo en su sencillez, la que es un puente entre lo mortal y lo infinito, entre lo visible y lo invisible. La luz mistica emana de cada uno de sus poemas. Fosse pertenece a una de las tradiciones poeticas mas complejas y fascinantes: la tradicion orfica. Es decir, la de aquellos poetas que, en medio de la destruccion, del nihilismo, del fin de todas las verdades y de la belleza, se han dado a la ardua tarea de reconstruir el sentido sagrado del mundo. No se trata, sin embargo, de una escritura dificil. El sentido sagrado del mundo como nos lo han enseñado Holderlin, Trakl o Rilke, con quienes entabla un dialogo a lo largo de estos libros esta latente, oculto, en lo mas sencillo: en un niño, en una barca, en la nieve, en un animal, en un sendero a traves del bosque o en la memoria. Y quiza sea ese el punto clave de la poetica de Fosse: la memoria y la presencia de la infancia. La infancia individual y la infancia del mundo. Cuando lo imposible es lo cotidiano; cuando la magia y la maravilla lo recubren todo; cuando cada elemento de la existencia, por minusculo que sea, es motivo de estupor y de alegria. Pero tambien cuando el dolor y la melancolia son mas graves. Jon Fosse es un poeta sencillo y poderoso, alegre y taciturno, ilimitado y desprovisto de todo. Como los niños.

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.

En un mundo en donde se afirma que esta realidad es lo único que existe y que no hay forma de modificarla, en un mundo bajo el poder de lo material, de lo palpable, de lo concreto, Jon Fosse nos recuerda lo que nos une de forma indisoluble con lo invisible. Porque ¿donde quedo nuestro vinculo con el amor, que crea la alianza mas poderosa con lo sagrado? ¿Donde la lengua que algun dia aprendimos para hablar con los animales? ¿Donde los angeles que durante siglos nos visitaron para poner en nuestros ojos visiones delicadas y un misterioso regalo en nuestro vientre, que esta a punto de nacer a cada instante? ¿Donde nuestro andar por el mundo, sabiendo que todo es parte de un alfabeto divino que hace tiempo hemos olvidado como leer?Jon Fosse, con la delicadeza de la luz, con la violencia de la nieve sobre las tormentas del mar oscuro, nos responde en sus ultimos poemas: todo lo que hemos perdido, todo lo que hemos olvidado, esta dentro de nosotros, en estas palabras, resguardado, protegido, indestructible. Abrid este libro y recordad: lo invisible y sus dioses, y sus enseñanzas, intempestivas, intemporales, invulnerables, volveran a aparecer ante vuestros ojos.

La bella historia de un pintor alemán del siglo pasado.EL pintor noruego Lars Hertervig está enamorado de Helene, la hija de su casera. Pero la joven sólo tiene quince años, y Lars no debería amarla. Por ello, pierde la razon y es repatriado a su pais. El diagnostico de los medico: melancolia. En el manicomio le prohiben tener sus lapices, sus pinceles y sus pinturas; asi, al joven y obsesionado pintor solo le queda huir.Jon Fosse nacio en 1959 en la costera ciudad noruega de Haugesund. Ha publicado novelas, obras de teatro, poesia, ensayos y libros infantiles. En el año 2000 recibio el premio Nestroy de teatro por su obra Namnet (el nombre).Primero tuvimos a Henrik Ibsen; despues, nada. Ahora tenemos a Fosse. -(Die Woche, Hamburgo)

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. Beginning with Johanness fathers thoughts as his wife goes into labour, and ending with Johanness own thoughts as he embarks upon a day in his life when everything is exactly the same, yet totally different, Morning and Evening is a novel concerning the beautiful dream that our lives have meaning.

Asle is an ageing painter and widower who lives alone on the southwest coast of Norway. In nearby Bjrgvin another Asle, also a painter, is lying in the hospital, consumed by alcoholism. Asle and Asle are doppelgangers two versions of the same person, two versions of the same life, both grappling with existential questions. In this final instalment of Jon Fosses 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.

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 Hertervigs 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 landladys daughter. Marked by inspiring lyrical flights of passion and enraged sexual delusions, Hertervigs 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 Winckelmanns 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).

Scenes from a Childhood is the latest collection of stories by Jon Fosse, one of Norways 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 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 Fosses imagination, and occasions some of his greatest works.

A man starts driving without knowing where he is going. He alternates between turning right and left, and finally he gets stuck at the end of a forest road. Soon it gets dark and starts to snow, but instead of going back to find help, he ventures, foolishly, into the dark forest. Inevitably, the man gets lost, and as he grows cold and tired, he encounters a glowing being amid the obscurity. Strange, haunting and dreamlike, A Shining is the latest work of fiction by Jon Fosse, the Beckett of the twenty-first century (Le Monde).

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 Asles great-great-grandmother Aliss. In Jon Fosses 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.

If theres any metaphor I would use for the act of writing, it would have to be listening, says Jon Fosse in A Silent Language, the lecture he delivered after being awarded the 2023 Nobel Prize in Literature. When he writes, Fosse explains, he listens for texts that exist somewhere outside of himself in order to transcribe them before they disappear. With reverence and humility, Fosse traces his relationship to writing and celebrates the capacity of language to embrace the mystery, complexity and existential uncertainty of the human experience. It is only in the silence that you can hear Gods voice, he says, offering a key to his beloved works of drama and fiction. Maybe.

Jatgeir has come from Vaim to the big city Bjrgvin on his wooden boat Eline named after the long lost love of his teenage years He intends to buy a needle and thread to sew a button but he is cheated twice That night while sleeping on his boat he hears a familiar voice unexpectedly it is Eline who wants to come home to Vaim with him She leaves a note for her husband Frank packs her bags and runs away while he is out fishing Vaim Jon Fosse s first novel since he received the 2023 Nobel Prize in Literature is the story of this triangle a novel about little boats and big boats love and death passive men and an incredibly determined woman And all of course was strange