Jon Fosse: Morning and evening (2015, Dalkey Archive Press)
English language
Published Aug. 10, 2015 by Dalkey Archive Press.
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 labor, 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. --
I found this sort of pleasantly sad, but ultimately not very interesting. I'm left wondering why they gave Fosse the Nobel, but at least it's still less perplexing than many of their peace prize choices.
