It’s not me who’s seeing
Blake Morrison: Jon Fosse’s Methods, 5 January 2023
Septology
by Jon Fosse, translated by Damion Searls.
Fitzcarraldo, 825 pp., £16.99, November,978 1 80427 006 6 Show More
by Jon Fosse, translated by Damion Searls.
Fitzcarraldo, 825 pp., £16.99, November,
Aliss at the Fire
by Jon Fosse, translated by Damion Searls.
Fitzcarraldo, 74 pp., £10.99, November,978 1 80427 004 2 Show More
by Jon Fosse, translated by Damion Searls.
Fitzcarraldo, 74 pp., £10.99, November,
“... Jon Fosse doesn’t use sentences, or prefers not to end them. When you open Septology, with its smallish print and narrow margins, it can feel like a death sentence – all the more so since the book, much possessed with death, runs to more than eight hundred pages. There are no paragraphs or full stops here ... ”