FOSSE JON (NOBEL 2023)

Το άλλο όνομα
«Και με βλέπω που στέκομαι και κοιτάζω...» Τι κοιτάζει και τι σκέφτεται ο ηλικιωμένος ζωγράφος Άσλε, που, μετά τον θάνατο της γυναίκας του, ζει απομονωμένος στην εξοχή; Τι τον συνδέει με τον αλκοολικό συνονόματό του Άσλε, επίσης ζωγράφο; Πώς μοιράζονται τις σκέψεις τους για την τέχνη, τον Θεό, τον αλκοολισμό, τη φιλία, τον έρωτα, το πέρασμα του χρόνου; «Ένας από τους πιο ιδιοφυείς ανθρώπους της εποχής μας» (The Daily Telegraph), ο Γιόν Φόσε (γενν. Χάουγκεζουντ 1959) ζει σήμερα στο Grotten, μια κατοικία που παραχωρεί ο βασιλιάς της Νορβηγί...
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Τρία έργα
«Για μένα, η τέχνη ήταν πάντα συνδεδεμένη με αυτή τη σχεδόν μη ανθρώπινη φωνή, μέσα από τον καθημερινό λόγο. Και εκείνο που είναι παράδοξο είναι το ότι αυτή η φωνή βρίσκεται εκεί, χωρίς να λέει τίποτα. Είναι μια βουβή φωνή. Μια φωνή που μιλάει σωπαίνοντας. Πρόκειται για μια φωνή που με κάποιο τρόπο έρχεται από αυτό που δεν έχει ειπωθεί, είναι μια φωνή που βγαίνει από τη σιωπή και που μπορεί να ακουστεί κάποιες στιγμές μέσω αυτού που λένε οι άλλοι. [...] Δουλεύω όπως ένας μουσικός που παίζει το μέρος του, το θέμα και τις παραλλαγές, τις επα...
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Χειμώνας
Σκοτάδι. Ανάβουν τα φώτα. Ένα παγκάκι πάρκου. Έρχεται ένας άντρας, μπαίνει από δεξιά, φοράει ένα μαύρο παλτό, κάθεται στο παγκάκι, στην αριστερή άκρη. Αμέσως μετά μπαίνει μια γυναίκα, είναι ντυμένη ελαφριά, χωρίς πανωφόρι, και κάθεται κι αυτή στο παγκάκι, αλλά στην άκρη της άλλης πλευράς. Ο άντρας σηκώνεται σχεδόν αμέσως και πάει προς τ'αριστερά. Η ΓΥΝΑΙΚΑ: στον άντρα που πάει μπροστά Ε, εσύ Εσύ ναι Εσύ Ο άντρας συνεχίζει να περπατά Ε, εσύ Εσύ εκεί Εσύ Ο άντρας σταματάει, στρέφει προς τη γυναίκα Ναι εσύ Τι διάολο νομίζεις πως είσαι και φεύ...
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(P/B) I is Another
Asle is an ageing painter and widower who lives alone on the southwest coast of Norway. His only friends are his neighbour, Asleik, a traditional fisherman-farmer, and Beyer, a gallerist who lives in the city. There, in Bjorgvin, lives another Asle, also a painter but lonely and consumed by alcohol. Asle and Asle are doppelgangers - two versions of the same person, two versions of the same life, both grappling with existential questions. In this second instalment of Jon Fosse's Septology, the two Asles meet for the first time in their yout...
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Και δεν θα χωρίσουμε ποτέ
Η ζωή όμως είναι αναμονή, έτσι δεν είναι; Οι άνθρωποι κάθονται στα δωμάτιά τους, κάθονται στα σπίτια τους, κάθονται εκεί περιμένοντας ανάμεσα στα πράγματά τους στην ασφάλεια που δίνουν τα πράγματα. Κάθονται και περιμένουν στα σπίτια κάτω απ' τον ουρανό, κάθονται εκεί και περιμένουν στα δωμάτια στα σπίτια ανάμεσα στα πράγματά τους, ζούνε περιμένοντας κι ύστερα δεν περιμένουν πια Παύση. Και τότε μένουν τα πράγματα. (Από την παρουσίαση στο οπισθόφυλλο του βιβλίου)...
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(P/B) A new name
Asle is an ageing painter and widower who lives alone on the southwest coast of Norway. In nearby Bjorgvin another Asle, also a painter, is lying in the hospital, consumed by alcoholism. Asle and Asle are doppelgangers - two versions of the same person, two versions of the same life, both grappling with existential questions. In this final instalment of Jon Fosse's Septology, the major prose work by 'the Beckett of the twenty-first century' (Le Monde), we follow the lives of the two Asles as younger adults in flashbacks: the narrator meets...
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(P/B) Melancholy I-II
Melancholy I-II is a fictional invocation of the nineteenth-century Norwegian artist Lars Hertervig, who painted luminous landscapes, suffered mental illness and died poor in 1902. In this wild, feverish narrative, Jon Fosse delves into Hertervig's mind as the events of one day precipitate his mental breakdown. A student of Hans Gude at the Academy of Art in Dusseldorf, Hertervig is paralyzed by anxieties about his talent and is overcome with love for Helene Winckelmann, his landlady's daughter. Marked by inspiring lyrical flights of passi...
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(P/B) Plays five
In their different ways, these plays are existential suspense stories, centred around a common concept of time. The past is recreated through present moments, the future hinted at through shared memories, yet experienced from different perspectives. Fosse's drama explores life lived in unexpected ways, with a sense of otherness pervading the present and colouring the characters' relationships. The whole life of Suzannah Ibsen unfolds as she waits for her playwriting husband to come home. In Sleep, one day captures the lives of a young woma...
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(P/B) Aliss at the Fire
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 mom...
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Τόσο όμορφα
ΤΟ ΚΟΡΙΤΣΙ: Σε λίγο καιρό εγώ θα φύγω από 'δω τότε θα τελειώσουν οι καλοκαιρινές μου διακοπές τότε θα 'ρθει το φθινόπωρο και ο χειμώνας τότε θα 'ρθει το σκοτάδι και το κρύο και τότε εσύ θα είσαι εδώ και εγώ θα είμαι μέσα στην πόλη εκεί που ζούμε. ΤΟ ΑΓΟΡΙ: Μη μιλάς γι' αυτό. (Από την παρουσίαση στο οπισθόφυλλο του βιβλίου)...
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(P/B) Aliss at the fire
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 mom...
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(P/B) Plays two
These three seasonal plays are typical Fosse, imbuing apparently mundane situations with an almost hypnotic intensity. In A Summer's Day, an old widow remembers the day, many years before, when her husband went out to sea in a terrible storm. In a series of continuous but chronologically distinct scenes, Dream of Autumn shows a man unexpectedly meeting an old friend: she will become his second wife, and cause him to fall out with his family. In Winter a fascinating but mercurial woman tries to seduce a businessman, but once he has given up...
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(P/B) Plays one
In Someone is Going to Come the two of them want to be together, just the two of them, so they leave the city and buy a remote house by the sea. But is it possible to do what they want to do? Won't somebody come? Surely someone will come. The Guitar Man is a poignant monologue in which a busker sings songs to an audience that is always on the move, always passing him by. The Name (winner of the Ibsen Prize in Norway) tells the story of an estranged family forced to live under one roof. When a pregnant girl and the father of the child have ...
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(P/B) Plays three
Mother and Child is the intense journey of two individuals trying to connect. Like strangers on a first date, mother and son stalk each other, confronted with a shared history they cannot ignore. In Sleep my Baby Sleep three people are in strange unnamed place; through visual and linguistic association they try to decipher their predicament. In Afternoon characters come and go in a flat that is for sale, and in Beautiful the past disrupts the present when a man and his family go back to his childhood valley. Death Variations explores diffe...
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(P/B) Plays four
In "And We'll Never be Parted", Jon Fosse exploits theatre's unique potential for ambiguity: as a woman anxiously waits for her husband, are we watching reality, fantasy, memory, or even a ghost story? The Son concerns an ageing and isolated couple, whose long-absent son has a score to settle with their meddlesome neighbour. In the oblique but psychologically penetrating Visits, a withdrawn teenager, apparently upset by the attentions of her mother's boyfriend, turns to her brother for help. The short play Meanwhile the lights go down and ...
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(P/B) Nightsongs
I don't know what it is that always makes 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. (from the publisher)...
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(P/B) The Girl on the Sofa
A girl sits on a sofa, not knowing what to do with herself. She argues with her mother and envies her older sister. She also longs for her absent father, a seaman. A middle-aged woman paints a portrait of herself as a young girl, sitting on a sofa, but she's beginning to doubt her artistic ability. Still at odds with her sister and her mother and haunted by her dead father, she's unable to shake the continuing presence of the past in her life. (From the publisher)...
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