Jon Fosse, Scenes from a Childhood
Fitzcarraldo, 2017
The first collection of short stories by Fosse in English, this career-spanning selection includes an autobiography of childhood and adolescence in a mosaic of short scenes, and a haunting, intense novella about a man who finds out that his neighbor has killed his dog.
“Jon Fosse is a major European writer.” —Karl Ove Knausgaard
“Fosse’s prose ... builds out of an ambiguity and sparseness and moves with a slow poetic intensity... The collection has all the hallmarks of Fosse’s signature brooding manner where lyrical precision is used to paint unmoored psyches, [and] benefits greatly from Damion Searls’s adroitly measured translation.” —Tank Magazine
“The stories included here boast a rich emotionality as well as a complex blending of reality and dream... This is powerful work.” Berfrois