A Silent Language ? WINNER OF THE 2023 NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATURE: The Nobel Lecture

Fosse, Jon

ISBN 10: 1804271233 / ISBN 13: 9781804271230

Verlag: Fitzcarraldo Editions, 2024

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Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers V9781804271230

Bibliografische Details

• Titel: A Silent Language ? WINNER OF THE 2023 NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATURE: The Nobel Lecture
• Verlag: Fitzcarraldo Editions
• Veröffentlichungsdatum: 2024
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN-10: 1804271233
• ISBN-13: 9781804271230
• Bindung: Softcover
• Zustand: New

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Inhaltsangabe

‘If there’s any metaphor I would use for the act of writing, it would have to be listening,’ says Jon Fosse in A Silent Language, the lecture he delivered after being awarded the 2023 Nobel Prize in Literature. When he writes, Fosse explains, he listens for texts that exist somewhere outside of himself in order to transcribe them before they disappear. With reverence and humility, Fosse traces his relationship to writing and celebrates the capacity of language to embrace the mystery, complexity and existential uncertainty of the human experience. ‘It is only in the silence that you can hear God’s voice,’ he says, offering a key to his beloved works of drama and fiction. ‘Maybe.’

Über die Autorinnen und Autoren

Jon Fosse was born in 1959 on the west coast of Norway and is the recipient of countless prestigious prizes, both in his native Norway and abroad. Since his 1983 fiction debut, Raudt, svart [Red, Black], Fosse has written prose, poetry, essays, short stories, children’s books and over forty plays. In 2023, he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature ‘for his innovative plays and prose which give voice to the unsayable’.

Damion Searls is a translator from German, Norwegian, French and Dutch, and a writer in English. He has translated nine books by Jon Fosse, including the three books of Septology.

Chris Hall is a translator from Swedish. He lives in Stockholm.