Aliss at the Fire — WINNER OF THE 2023 NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATURE
just like she now sees herself standing there, he too stood there like that in front of the window, like she now sees herself standing, before he disappeared and stayed gone, gone forever, he often stood like that and looked and looked, and the darkness outside the window was black and he was almost impossible to tell apart from the darkness out th
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he likes to walk, he only needs to get going, to really get going, to find his own pace again, and then it’s good, he thinks, it’s as though the heaviness that otherwise fills his life gets a little lighter, it gets taken away from him, turned into movement,
Jon Fosse • Aliss at the Fire — WINNER OF THE 2023 NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATURE
why is he still here? because he’s gone, he’s been gone for years, it’s been years since he disappeared, but it’s still as if he’s still here,
Jon Fosse • Aliss at the Fire — WINNER OF THE 2023 NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATURE
and she looks at him and then she looks away from him into the emptiness and then she lays both her hands on her stomach and she folds her hands and I hear Signe say Dear Jesus, help me, you have to help me, you
Jon Fosse • Aliss at the Fire — WINNER OF THE 2023 NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATURE
That’s Aliss, he thinks, and he sees it, he knows it. That’s Aliss at the fire. That is Aliss, he thinks, his great-great-grandmother, he is sure of it. It’s Aliss, he was named after her, or rather after her grandson Asle, the one who died when he was seven, the one who drowned, he drowned in the bay, his Grandpa Olaf’s brother, his namesake.
Jon Fosse • Aliss at the Fire — WINNER OF THE 2023 NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATURE
if there was one thing he didn’t like it was big words, they just lied and covered things up, those big words, they didn’t let what really was live and breathe but just carried it off into something that wanted to be big,
Jon Fosse • Aliss at the Fire — WINNER OF THE 2023 NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATURE
They stand there, they stand there as though they had been standing there since time immemorial, she thinks.
Jon Fosse • Aliss at the Fire — WINNER OF THE 2023 NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATURE
what’s that gleaming there? who’s that standing there? who’s that? and who are the people walking there? is it she herself standing down there? and does she look scared? desperate? as though she is dissolved and in the process of disappearing altogether? does she really look like that? she thinks, who is that? she thinks, but no, she is standing ri
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