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A child who will be named Johannes is born. An old man named Johannes dies. Between these two points, Jon Fosse gives us the details of an entire life, starkly compressed. Beginning with Johannes's father's thoughts as his wife goes into labour, and ending with Johannes's own thoughts as he embarks upon a day in his life when everything is exactly the same, yet totally different, Morning and Evening is a novel concerning the beautiful dream that our lives have meaning.

Details

ISBN13: 9781804271216
Format: Paperback / softback
Number of Pages: 64
Edition:
Publication Date: 04 Feb 2025
Publisher: Fitzcarraldo Editions
Publication City, Country: London, United Kingdom
Dimensions (cm): 197(H)x125(L)
Weight (gm):

Author Biography

Jon Fosse was born in 1959 on the west coast of Norway and is the recipient of countless prestigious prizes, both in his native Norway and abroad. Since his 1983 fiction debut, Raudt, svart [Red, Black], Fosse has written prose, poetry, essays, short stories, children's books and over forty plays. In 2023, he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature 'for his innovative plays and prose which give voice to the unsayable'.

Damion Searls is a translator from German, Norwegian, French and Dutch, and a writer in English. He has translated nine books by Jon Fosse, including the three books of Septology.

Reviews

'Something in the critical self is shed in the process of reading Fosse, only to be replaced by something more primal. A mood. An atmosphere. The sound of words moving on a page.'
― Ruth Margalit, New York Review of Books

'Damion Searls' translation is delicate and rhythmic. Fosse is a great novelist of our time, and if you haven't already discovered him for yourself, this short, sublime novel may be the perfect opportunity.'
― Rónán Hession, Irish Times

'We are in the presence of rare literary greatness. It is for this greatness that the Swedish Academy has justly awarded Jon Fosse the Nobel prize.'
― Paul Binding, Times Literary Supplement

'Jon Fosse is a major European writer.'
― Karl Ove Knausgaard, author of The Wolves of Eternity

'The Beckett of the twenty-first century.'
― Le Monde