3.5
Morning and Evening
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Winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature for 2023
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“There’s a particular frequency Norwegian writers hum at. A quiet, elemental vibration that feels like standing beside the water at dawn, sensing there’s another world just behind this one.
Morning and Evening sits right in that place.
This is my first Jon Fosse, and it won’t be my last!
The story is so simple you almost miss how much he’s doing: a man’s birth, a man’s death.
But the way Fosse moves between these poles, the way he lets life and death echo each other, felt like being held inside a gentle paradox.
He writes duality with such grace: body and spirit, presence and absence, memory and moment. Nothing is forced.
Nothing is over-explained.
He just opens the door and trusts you’ll walk through.
And I did.
The whole book is soaked in the longing for meaning.
The kind that lives in the small, true places.
The kind you feel under your ribcage when you’re quiet enough to notice your own life.
Fosse writes that space with a tenderness that surprised me.
It felt less like reading a novel and more like listening for a pulse.
His prose…whoof.
Rhythmic.
Meditative.
Almost prayer-like.
It’s the kind of writing that slows your breath without asking permission.
I found myself lingering on sentences, pausing to really take them in.
For a brief book, it carries a vastness.
And now I understand why people talk about Fosse like he’s a spiritual experience, not an author.
If this is the doorway, then Septology is the cathedral, and I think I’m finally ready to step inside.
A beautiful, quiet, soul-deep read.
I loved it.”
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About Jon Fosse
Jon Fosse was born in 1959 on the west coast of Norway and has written over thirty books and twenty-eight plays that have been translated into over 40 languages. His first novel, Red, Black, was published in 1983, and was followed by such works as Melancholia I & II, Aliss at the Fire, and Morning and Evening, which are available in translation from Dalkey Archive Press. He is one of the world’s most produced living playwrights. In 2007, Fosse became a chevalier of the Ordre national du Mérite of France, and he was awarded the International Ibsen Award in 2010. In 2011, he moved into Grotten, an honorary residence for artists on the grounds of the Royal Palace in Oslo. He was awarded the European Prize for Literature in 2014 and the Nordic Council Literature Prize in 2015.
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