《童年场景》是挪威知名的作家和剧作家之一约恩·福瑟的新小说集,他的作品以简约和令人不安的品质而闻名。在标题作品中,作者以松散的自传体叙事方式讲述了从婴儿期到尴尬的青春期的故事,揭示了在人们的想象中挥之不去的童年时光。在《And Then My Dog Will Come Back To Me》这部如梦如幻的长篇小说中,邻居之间的争执升级到了不可阻挡的高潮。这些短篇小说取材广泛,汇集在一起,表明短篇小说是福瑟经常使用的想象模式之一,也是他一些伟大作品的契机。
Scenes from a Childhood is the latest collection of stories by Jon Fosse, one of Norway's most celebrated authors and playwrights, famed for the minimalist and unsettling quality of his writing. In the title work, a loosely autobiographical narrative covers infancy to awkward adolescence, unearthing the moments of childhood that linger longest in the imagination. In 'And Then My Dog Will Come Back To Me', a haunting and dream-like novella, a dispute between neighbours escalates to an inexorable climax. Taken from various sources, the texts gathered here together for the first time demonstrate that the short story is one of the recurrent modes of Fosse's imagination, and occasions some of his greatest works.
Jon Fosse was born in 1959 on the west coast of Norway and is the recipient of countless prestigious prizes, both in his native Norway and abroad. Since his 1983 fiction debut, Raudt, svart [Red, Black], Fosse has written prose, poetry, essays, short stories, children’s books, and over forty plays, with more than a thousand productions performed and translations into fifty languages. His most recent publication in English is Scenes from a Childhood, a collection of short prose published in November 2018 by Fitzcarraldo Editions.
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