An angel walks through the stage and other essays
By: by Jon Fosse ; translated from the Norwegian by May-Brit Akerholt
Contributors: Akerholt, May-Brit, translator
Edition: First edition.
Publisher: Dalkey Archive Press
Published: 2015
Place of publication: Champaign
Language: eng
Work titles: Works
Description: Jon Fosse said farewell to theory early in his career, choosing poetry, fiction, and drama as his mediums of choice. Here, however, in a selection from his two books of essays, we see just how incisive a critic and memoirist he can be. Not only including a generous portion of Fosse's writing on literature and theater--including the irresistable "Thomas Bernhard and His Grandfather"--this collection also includes such personal essays such as "My Dear New Norwegian." "Old Houses," and "He Who Didn't Want to Become a Teacher." --
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Foreword; title: From telling via showing to writing; title: The novel in its great irony; title: The deepest need for speechlessness; title: Literature; title: My dear new Norwegian; title: In between; title: Negative mysticism; title: The big fisheyes; title: Non-place; title: Anagoge; title: A kind of listening in the dark; title: About the same in literature and visual art; title: He who didn't want to become a teacher; title: Ibsen-Joyce-Beckett; title: Voice without speech; title: Thomas Bernard and his grandfather; title: When an angel walks through the stage; title: Literary quality; title: Dramatic insight; title: What makes what happens happen?; title: Old houses; title: Bloom, canon, literary quality, gnosis; title: For the sun to rise; title: The quality's invisible legitimacy; title: The demoniacal writer; title: The art of the human being; title: The gnosis of writing; title: Seagulls and spruce.