Author of novels, poetry, essays and books for children, as well as award-winning plays, Jon Fosse is a leading Norwegian writer whose work has been translated into a number of languages and performed throughout Europe. Fosse's unique style, at once poetic and naturalistic, magnifies the love and pain of ordinary people. He won the Ibsen prize for his play The Name, which is included in this collection along with Someone is Going to Come, The Guitar Man, and The Child.
Author of novels, poetry, essays and books for children, as well as award-winning plays, Jon Fosse is a leading Norwegian writer whose work has bee...
They have a child and life changes. He can't go out and she can't stay in. He writes words that no one will publish and she takes a lover. -I don't know what it is/ that always make something happen/ But it must be something/ because something always happens/ I don't want anything to happen/ and then something/ happens all the same.-
They have a child and life changes. He can't go out and she can't stay in. He writes words that no one will publish and she takes a lover. -I don't kn...
The Girl on the Sofa is a translation of a play by Norway's greatest living writer, Jon Fosse. Translated here by Socttish playwright David Harrower and oroiginally produced at Edinburgh's prestigious Traverse Theatre.
The Girl on the Sofa is a translation of a play by Norway's greatest living writer, Jon Fosse. Translated here by Socttish playwright David Harrower a...
In kargen Dialogen und mit viel schwarzem Humor beschreibt Jon Fosse einfache Menschen in einer nicht ganz einfachen Welt. Wie nebenbei verhandeln seine leisen, leichtfüßigen Geschichten die großen Lebensthemen: Treue und Verrat, Schmerz und Begierde, Liebe und Tod. Erstmals auf Deutsch erscheinen hier die Stücke "Traum im Herbst", "Sommertag und Winter", mit denen Fosse gerade die europäischen Bühnen im Sturm erobert.
In kargen Dialogen und mit viel schwarzem Humor beschreibt Jon Fosse einfache Menschen in einer nicht ganz einfachen Welt. Wie nebenbei verhandeln sei...
In "Morgen und Abend" erzhlt Jon Fosse von einem groen Thema, dem Tod. Die Geschichte, in deren Mittelpunkt ein einfacher norwegischer Fischer steht, dessen Leben hart und erfllt war, ffnet den Blick auf das, wovon heute kaum jemand spricht.Eine kunstvoll rhythmisierte, ganz schlichte Erzhlung, die bezaubert und berhrt.
In "Morgen und Abend" erzhlt Jon Fosse von einem groen Thema, dem Tod. Die Geschichte, in deren Mittelpunkt ein einfacher norwegischer Fischer steht, ...
A young man lives alone with his mother and his beloved dog in a house in a small village overlooking the fjord. The dog has run off and gone missing. This has never happened before. In The Dead Dogs, lives are shockingly disrupted by an event that changes the direction of their future. Jon Fosse's drama explores life lived in unexpected ways, with a sense of otherness pervading the present and colouring the characters' relationships. Jon Fosse's work includes novels, poetry, essays and books for children. He is one of the most produced playwrights in Europe and his plays...
A young man lives alone with his mother and his beloved dog in a house in a small village overlooking the fjord. The dog has run off and gone missing....
