2023-10-08 03:01:17
8. October 2023, 2:10 PM
Jon Fosse has often been celebrated as Norway’s most famous playwright since Ibsen. His work has been translated into around forty languages, and many of his pieces have been among the most performed worldwide in recent decades. Most recently, his name was found on a list of candidates for the Nobel Prize in Literature – as it said in the accompanying text to this “image of humanity” from 2014. Twenty years earlier, a play by him had been performed for the first time; With his 33rd play, the theater was supposed to be over, Jon Fosse said at the time. He had “written himself empty” as a playwright – and he stuck to the announcement. In recent years he has published a novel septology (previously available in German, partially translated, as a heptalogy in two parts, “The other name” and “I is another”).
Jon Fosse, born in the small village of Fosse in the municipality of Strandebarm, had been living in Lower Austria for some time at the time of this conversation: for the sake of his third wife, who comes from Slovakia and is currently doing her doctorate in Bratislava, he came to Austria from the north, moved to the Danube. As a writer, “the Beckett of the 21st century” – as critics like to call him because of his taciturn, carefully composed pieces – has always written poetry and finds inspiration for this in Austrian literature, in Trakl and Rilke.
“Writing has a lot to do with music,” says Jon Fosse. “Writing is hearing, not seeing. It’s always regarding the beauty of the silence in a text.” Fosse, who once described himself as a “believer without religion,” has since converted to Catholicism. “This is perhaps the most rebellious step of my life. Although – I have always seen writing as a kind of prayer.”
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