Aliss at the Fire, Jon Fosse
Aliss at the Fire, Jon Fosse
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Aliss at the Fire

Author: Jon Fosse, Damion Searls

Narrator: Kåre Conradi

Unabridged: 2 hr 19 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 05/14/2024

Synopsis

Winner of the 2023 Nobel Prize in Literature In her old house by the fjord, Signe lies on a bench and sees a vision of herself as she was more than twenty years earlier: standing by the window waiting for her husband Asle, on that terrible late November day when he took his rowboat out onto the water and never returned. Her memories widen out to include their whole life together, and beyond: the bonds of family and the battles with implacable nature stretching back over five generations, to Asle's great-great-grandmother Aliss. In Jon Fosse's vivid, hallucinatory prose, all these moments in time inhabit the same space, and the ghosts of the past collide with those who still live on. Aliss at the Fire is a visionary masterpiece, a haunting exploration of love and loss that ranks among the greatest meditations on marriage and human fate.

About Jon Fosse

Jon Fosse was born in 1959 on the west coast of Norway and has written over thirty books and twenty-eight plays that have been translated into over 40 languages. His first novel, Red, Black, was published in 1983, and was followed by such works as Trilogy, Aliss at the Fire, and Morning and Evening. He is one of the world’s most produced living playwrights. Winning numerous prestigious international awards throughout this career, he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2023.

About Damion Searls

Damion Searls is a writer in English and translator from German, French, Dutch, and Norwegian. Searls has translated writers including Ingeborg Bachmann, Thomas Bernhard, Peter Handke, Christa Wolf; his translation of Hans Keilson's "Comedy in a Minor Key" was a New York Times Notable Book of 2010 and National Book Critics Circle Award finalist in Fiction.

About Kåre Conradi

Kåre Conradi is an acclaimed actor and voiceover artist. Born in Asker outside of Oslo, he trained at LAMDA and The Norwegian Academy of Dramatic Arts. In addition to other stage performances, he has been employed as a regular member at The National Theatre of Norway since 1999, where he has performed in more than thirty productions. His TV and film credits include Boys Will Be Boys, Wide Blue Yonder, The Philanthropist, Arctic Passage: Prisoners of the Ice, King Curling, and The Conqueror.

Reviews

Goodreads review by David

This is the first Fosse that I've completed, although I've dipped in and out of Damion Searls's translation of the multi-volume Septology. Stylistically, this has much in common with the Septology and can perhaps be seen as a 74-page forerunner to the much longer work. Fosse is an interesting writer......more

Goodreads review by s.penkevich

**Huge congrats to Jon Fosse for being awarded the 2023 Nobel Prize in Literature!** ‘what ties two people together?’ I’m always on the lookout for a novella that can pack an enormous emotional and intellectual sting into a tiny package of few pages. Jon Fosse’s Aliss at the Fire is certainly a reward......more

Goodreads review by Vit

Aliss at the Fire is written in the same style as Septology. It is a tale of recurring destiny. The stream of thoughts is incessant… Nothing can stop her remembering and imagining… One day her husband disappeared but he is still there in her memory…  …everything is as it was before, nothing has change......more

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