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Jon Fosse

Aliss at the Fire

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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.
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Original publication
2022
Publication year
2022
Publisher
Fitzcarraldo Editions

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  • Masha Dusapinhas quoted7 months ago
    he can be so unsure of himself, not knowing what he should say or do, but there’s not any resentment of her in him, she’s certainly never noticed any, she thinks, but then why would he want to be out on the fjord all the time? in that little boat he got himself, a little wooden boat, a rowboat, she thinks and she sees, lying there on the bench, herself standing there in the middle of the floor in the room and then she sees herself go over to the window and stand there and look out and now there is a little light outside, she thinks, standing there in front of the window, now it has got as light as it can probably get at this time of year, it’s brightened up so much that you can see the sky in its grey and black
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    • Masha Dusapinhas quoted7 months ago
      A lot of times when someone says something they don’t really mean anything by it, probably, he says
      Probably almost never, he says
      They just say something, just to say something, that’s true, Signe says
      That’s what it’s like, yes, Asle says
      They have to say something, Signe says
      They have to, Asle says
      That’s how it is, he says
      and she sees him stand there and sort of not entirely know what to do with himself and then he raises one hand and lowers it again
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