Scenes from a Childhood
Jon Fosse The Nobel Prize
Original title: Prosa frå ein oppvekst
Publisher: Samlaget, 1994
Genre: Short stories
Pages: 160 pages
Scenes from a Childhood is a collection of stories by Jon Fosse.
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
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