9781564785732: Aliss at the Fire

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Winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature for 2023

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.

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Recensione

Mr Fosse...has been compared to Ibsen and to Beckett, and it is easy to see his work as Ibsen stripped down to its emotional essentials. But it is much more. For one thing, it has a fierce poetic simplicity. --New York Times

L'autore

Jon Fosse is one of contemporary Norwegian literature's most important writers.

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9781804270042: Aliss at the Fire - WINNER OF THE 2023 NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATURE: Jon Fosse (reprint: 9781804271025)

Edizione in evidenza

ISBN 10:  1804270040 ISBN 13:  9781804270042
Casa editrice: Penguin Random House USA, 2022
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