Seven books finished this month, and 53 for the half year—this time there were some crackers.

http://chinese-poems.com/blog/?p=2567

A Flat Place—@NoreenMasud@twitter.com
Aliss at the Fire—#JonFosse tr. #DamionSearls

“Without you I am only a movement, without you I am only an empty movement, a turn. A turning towards you. A movement towards you.”

Jon Fosse, Melancholy I, 1995. [Tr. Damion Searls]

#amreading #JonFosse

‘Aliss at the Fire’ in front of a fire.

Morton Feldman’s ‘Triadic Memories’ playing in the background which seems the perfect soundtrack for Fosse. #bookstodon #JonFosse #DamionSearls #FitzcarraldoEditions

@uhume Remarkably like the artist narrator's sentiments in Jon Fosse's The Other Name, who says "I'll paint them in toward my innermost picture, because when I do that, if I can do that, then the picture will disappear and go away and the uneasiness inside me will stop and it'll bring me peace." [32]
#jonfosse

On my blog today, I've written about ALISS AT THE FIRE, Jon Fosse's haunting, atmospheric novella about grief and loss.

Here's the link to my review:
https://readersretreat2017.wordpress.com/2022/12/08/aliss-at-the-fire-jon-fosse-tr-damion-searls/

Translated from Norwegian by Damion Searls.

#FitzcarraldoEditions #JonFosse #AlissAtTheFire #norwegianliterature #bookreview #bookrecommendations #books #bookstadon #DamionSearls

So I read #JonFosse a couple of years ago, and I was into it – significantly more so than #Knausgård at least – but "the closest I have come to feeling the presence of God here on earth"?

everyone on #bookstodon please read #MerveEmre ‘s considered and enlightening (and rare!) interview with #JonFosse in the #NewYorker : https://t.co/ATKOB9oplT
I joke a lot about it, but there really is something of the divine in Fosse’s #Septology .

#Books #literature #amreading #reading #norway

What are 5-7 of your favorite authors? Add them as hashtags so we can find each other, boost this, share your own, etc. Some of mine:

#JoyWilliams
#JoanDidion
#JonFosse
#TomásGonzález
#ScholastiqueMukasonga
#RobertoBolaño
#CarlPhillips