2023-10-31 09:14:05
After the recognition that his name earned by obtaining the Nobel Prize for Literature, the Norwegian narrator and playwright Jon Fosse arrives in our country’s bookstores in the coming days and weeks with several titles, including “Morning and Afternoon,” “Septology.” and “Trilogy”, while new translations are announced with no scheduled date yet.
Although Fosse’s work has been translated into more than 40 languages, his work has been little disseminated in Argentina and its circulation was restricted to a few titles that were translated and adapted into theatrical works in the country. and they have realized to what extent “the art of silence” is their personal hallmark: “The name”, “The son”, “The night sings its songs” and “Winter”.
Now co-published by Nórdica and De Conatus, these days you will be able to get the novel “Morning and Afternoon”, a short and intense text in which it addresses birth and death. «Between these two points, Jon Fosse gives us the details of an entire life, condensed with great beauty. Beginning with the thoughts of Johannes’ father when his wife goes into labor, and ending with Johannes’ own thoughts as he embarks on a day in his life in which everything is exactly the same, but totally different,” they review from the publisher. .
On the other hand, Seix Barral and De Conatus will publish in the coming weeks, throughout Latin America simultaneously, what are considered their greatest masterpieces: “Trilogy” and “Septology. The first has been classified as entering an “unknown depth” because Fosse tells the story of a couple of teenagers who are going to have a child and try to survive without help in a hostile world.
While “Septology” is a seven-book novel regarding the meaning of existence. «How do we get to know each other? What do others mean in our lives? Asle, a widowed painter who lives alone in a Norwegian fjord, observes his entire life with his gaze fixed on the flow of the sea. It is not regarding the nostalgia of a memory, it is regarding a meticulous observation that seeks to find where it has failed,” they advance regarding the background of this plot.
In fact, when he won the Nobel for his “innovative plays and prose that give voice to the unspeakable,” Anders Olsson, from the award committee, considered that “Septology” is his great masterpiece. The first volume “A New Name: Septology VI-VII” was a finalist for the Booker Prize International in 2022, where it competed with the book “Elena knows” by the Argentine Claudia Piñeiro.
On the other hand, Another large publisher such as Random House also joins the expansion of the Fosse catalog in Spanish. He does it, in principle, with “Melancholia I” and “Det er Ale”, then he will continue with “Melancholia II”, “Kvitleik» (A Shining) and the book of autobiographical stories «Scenes from a childhood», in Norwegian «Prosa frå ein oppvekst».
The label explains that the incorporation of these titles “responds to the author’s desire to have all his work published in the Spanish language.” While the editor Albert Puigdueta highlights that “his work puts literature at the center as a continuous exploration of the expressive possibility of language. “In his novels and stories there is melancholy and also luminosity, there are landscapes and atmospheres of great intensity, and characters embarked on a search for meaning, for some form of transcendence, in the face of that unsolvable mystery that existence entails.”
Although Jon Fosse is the fourth Norwegian writer to win the Nobel Prize in Literature, he is the first to write in “nynorsk”, one of the two official standards of the written Norwegian language, hence much of his work has not yet been published in Spanish. and include unpublished.
In Argentina, the Colihue publishing house published in 2001 “La noche canta sus songs and other theatrical works”, the translation of which was carried out by Clelia Chamatrópulos. “His works are like scores, musical universes of words and actions, in which rhythm, repetitions, silences and pauses take center stage,” Colihue reviews of the volume that addresses topics such as loneliness, lack of communication and the impossibility of human relations.
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