The Norwegian playwright, storyteller and poet Jon Fosse yesterday he won the Nobel Prize for Literature. Born in the city of Haugesund on September 29, 1959, he is one of the few authors under 65 years of age to obtain this distinction.
In the work of Fosse, of an existentialist, pessimistic nature, silence, the unsaid, has as much density as words. Especially his theater, hence the Swedish Academy distinguished him, in the recitals, for “having given voice to the unspeakable.”
In Norway, Fosse is one of the most represented playwrights, although much less outside its borders; However, in Buenos Aires it has enjoyed notable attention in the independent circuit, which once again highlights the importance of our theater square in the global context. For example, in the US, off Broadway, he was known four years later than in our country, when they staged “A Day in the Summer” in 2012.
Among us, Daniel Veronese He had premiered “La noche canta sus songs” in 2008 at the Fuga Cabrera room, with Claudio Da Passano, Luis Gasloli and Eugenia Guerty. That same year, Martín Trufó staged “The Son”, in El Camarín de las Musas, with Julio Molina, Susana Pampín and Pablo Rinaldi, and two years later Analía Fedra García directed “El nombre”, in La Carbonera, with Fabiana Falcón, María Eugenia López and Horacio Marassi.
Likewise, the Argentine publisher Colihue In 2011, he published six of his plays in the same volume, “The night sings its songs”, “And they will never separate us.” “The boy”. “One day in the summer.” “While the lights dim and everything goes dark” and “Variations on death”, with translation by Clelia Chamatrópulos, to whom we also owe the first two released versions mentioned above. Fosse does not write in the “official” Norwegian language but in a language called Nynorsk, a collection of dialects artificially created in the 19th century.
Most of his dramatic works (a genre in which he only began in 1999) reflect what was noted at the beginning: a deeply pessimistic view when it comes to human communication, and especially between members of the same family, as well as that the permanent feeling that something catastrophic is about to happen, and then nothing ends up happening, which is sometimes worse (hence Fosse recognizes Samuel Beckett, author of “Waiting for Godot”, as one of his fundamental influences ). His dramas, usually called “minimalist,” require stripped-down or non-existent sets.
His narrative work is prior to his dramatic work, and more extensive. Also in Argentina Emecé published one of his novels, “Melancolía” (2006, now out of print). But the publisher that has the most titles in the catalog of the brand new Nobel Prize is the Spanish De Conatus, a relatively new imprint. There his “Septología” was published, seven novels that start from the counterfactual question: what would have been of our lives if we had taken another path?
One of Fosse’s notable characteristics is his love for García Lorca, whom he not only quotes in some of his works but also insisted on giving his own versions, such as “Blood Wedding.”
2023-10-06 03:00:00
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