Angel Walks Through the Stage and Other Essays

Jon Fosse, May-Brit Akerholt

• Publisher: Dalkey Archive Press
• Year: 2015
• Edition: 0
• eBook ISBN:
  9781628976236
• Topic: Literature
• Subtopic: European Literary Collections
• Index: Literature

Winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature for 2023

Jon Fosse said farewell to theory early in his career, choosing poetry, fiction, and drama as his mediums of choice. Here, however, in a selection from his two books of essays, we see just how incisive a critic and memoirist he can be. Not only including a generous portion of Fosse's writing on literature and theater--including the irresistable "Thomas Bernhard and His Grandfather"--this collection also includes such personal essays such as "My Dear New Norwegian, " "Old Houses, " and "He Who Didn't Want to Become a Teacher."

Table of contents

• Cover
• Title Page
• Copyright
• Table of Contents
• Foreword: Fosse Chose Writing
• From Telling via Showing to Writing
• The Novel in Its Great Irony
• The Deepest Need for Speechlessness
• Literature
• My Beloved New Norwegian
• In-Between
• Negative Mysticism
• The Big Fisheyes
• Non-Place
• Anagoge
• A Kind of Listening in the Dark
• About Sameness in Literature and Visual Art
• He Who Didn’t Want to Become a Teacher
• Ibsen—Joyce—Beckett
• Voice without Speech
• Thomas Bernhard and His Grandfather
• An Angel Walks Through the Stage
• Literary Quality
• Dramatic Insight
• What Makes What Happens Happen?
• Old Houses
• Bloom, Canon, Literary Quality, Gnosis
• For the Sun to Rise
• Quality’s Invisible Legitimacy
• The Demoniacal Writer
• The Art of the Human Being
• The Gnosis of Writing
• Seagulls and Spruce
• Translator’s Postscript
• About the Author
• Back Cover