Jon Fosse

[eighthobstruction]

...."though commercial success has eluded him in UK - despite having his works appearing on Radio 3" {via R4 6oCN)......tee hee

....now a Nobel prizewinner /literature....up yours GB....

[RichardB]

He sounds like the kind of writer I could get into, although I'm sorry to say I had never heard of him before today.

[french frank]

It's either my own shortcoming (I'm happy to acknowledge that) or the fact that foreign language writers, even when translated into English, don't get much coverage over here, that I hadn't heard of him. Perhaps he's just 'not the right kind' of writer. I was nevertheless surprised to see that his Wikipedia article was begun in 2004.

Have just read The Guardian's 'Where to start' article which is useful. I wonder if the 2nd volume of Septology ('The Masterpiece'), entitled 'I is another' is a reference (by Fosse or by the translator?) to Rimbaud's Je est un autre.

[Forget It (U2079353)]

Fosse's 2023 A Shining is a single paragraph over 28 pages.
I bit like a stream of consciousness thing