Aliss at the Fire

Informationen zum Autor Jon Fosse is one of Norway's most important contemporary writers, since his 1983 fiction debut he has published prose, poetry and over forty plays. Fosse has been awarded a lifetime stipend by the Norwegian government among countless other accolades, and is one of the most performed living playwrights today. He was the 2023 recipient of the Nobel Prize in Literature.  Damion Searls is a writer in English and translator of German, French, Dutch, and Norwegian. His translations include work by Ingeborg Bachmann, Thomas Bernhard, Peter Handke, Christa Wolf; his translation of Hans Keilson's Comedy in a Minor Key was a New York Times Notable Book of 2010 and a National Book Critics Circle Award finalist in Fiction. Klappentext A visionary masterpiece from "the new Ibsen." Zusammenfassung 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.

Product details

• Authors: Jon Fosse, Damion Searls
• Assisted by: Damion Searls (Translation)
• Publisher: Dalkey Archive Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 26.11.2010
• EAN: 9781564785732
• ISBN: 978-1-56478-573-2
• No. of pages: 100
• Dimensions: 130 mm x 178 mm x 8 mm
• Series: Norwegian Literature Series; Norwegian Literature; Scandinavian Literature Series; Scandinavian Literature Series; Norwegian Literature
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; Fiction > Narrative literature > Contemporary literature (from 1945)