This slim, haunting, mesmeric novel from the Nobel Prize winner is finally published in the UK
The Norwegian author Jon Fosse had just entered middle age when he published Morgon og kveld , a slim novel depicting the first and last days in the life of an ordinary fisherman. Damion Searls’ English translation received scant coverage when it was first published in the US by Dalkey Archive Press in 2015. Back then, Fosse was relatively unknown in the English-speaking world.
The reader figures it out before Johannes does, which makes his confusion all the more poignant. “Everything is all wrong today, everything that happens today is happening so immediately and suddenly.” Fosse’s distinctive prose style — a spare, elegant minimalism deftly complicated by stylised, mesmeric repetitions — conjures a suitably haunting atmosphere, a sense of a once familiar world turned uncannily strange.
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