Details:
- author: Jon Fosse
- full title: Aliss at the Fire
- narrator: KÃ¥re Conradi
- genre: literary fiction
- topics: #families, #life, #death
- publisher: Dreamscape Media
- publish date: May 14 2024
- timing: 2:20:00
My Rating of the Audiobook:
- content: 💙💙💙💙.5
- narration: 💙💙💙💙💙
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My Thoughts:
Jon Fosse is the winner of the 2023 Nobel Prize for Literature.Signe lies on a bench in front of her house by the fjord. The house she once shared with Asle. In fact, it is an old house that once belonged to her husband’s family. She remembers her life with Asle and the night he disappeared at the sea. This was over 20 years ago. Fosse successfully weaves together stories of more family members from different periods. We learn about Signe’s marriage to Asle and the stories of Asle’s ancestors. It feels like the house is telling its own story.
Jon Fosse deservedly won the Nobel Prize last year. I love his repetitive style (especially on audio). With so few words and repetitions, he tells so much more on some other level.
This was my second audiobook by Jon Fosse, narrated by KÃ¥re Conradi, and I loved it again. If you want to experience Fosse's work but are concerned about the repetitive style, try it in audiobook format. The narrator is really perfect for reading this author.
About the Author:
Jon Olav Fosse was born in Haugesund, Norway and currently lives in Bergen. He debuted in 1983 with the novel Raudt, svart (Red, black). His first play, Og aldri skal vi skiljast, was performed and published in 1994. Jon Fosse has written novels, short stories, poetry, children's books, essays and plays. His works have been translated into more than forty languages. He is widely considered as one of the world's greatest contemporary playwrights. Fosse was made a chevalier of the Ordre national du Mérite of France in 2007. Fosse also has been ranked number 83 on the list of the Top 100 living geniuses by The Daily Telegraph.He was awarded The Nobel Prize in Literature 2023 "for his innovative plays and prose which give voice to the unsayable".
Since 2011, Fosse has been granted the Grotten, an honorary residence owned by the Norwegian state and located on the premises of the Royal Palace in the city centre of Oslo. The Grotten is given as a permanent residence to a person specifically bestowed this honour by the King of Norway for their contributions to Norwegian arts and culture.
