Morning and Evening

Jon Fosse

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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. Beginning with Johannes's father's thoughts as his wife goes into labor, and ending with Johannes's 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.

Book Details

Publisher: Dalkey Archive Press
Publish Date: Sep 25th, 2015
Pages: 112
Language: English
Edition: undefined - undefined
Dimensions: 6.90in - 4.80in - 0.30in - 0.25lb
EAN: 9781628971088
Categories: • Literary

About the Author

Searls, Damion: - Damion Searls has translated twenty-five books from German, French, Norwegian, and Dutch. He is the recipient of Guggenheim, NEA, and Cullman Center fellowships and the author of a book of short stories, What We Were Doing and Where We Were Going.

Fosse, Jon: - Called "the new Ibsen" and heralded throughout Europe, Jon Fosse is one of contemporary Norwegian literature's most important writers. He has published some thirty books of fiction, poetry, drama, and nonfiction. In 2000, his novel Melancholy won the Melsom Prize, and Fosse was awarded a lifetime stipend from the Norwegian government for his future literary efforts.

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"He has a surgeon's ability to use the scalpel and to cut into the most prosaic, everyday happenings, to tear loose fragments from life, to place them under the microscope and examine them minutely, in order to present them afterward... sometimes so endlessly desolate, dark, and fearful that Kafka himself would have been frightened." --Aftenposten