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(3.53) | 5 | Trilogy is Jon Fosse's critically acclaimed, luminous love story about Asle and Alida, two lovers trying to find their place in this world. Homeless and sleepless, they wander around Bergen in the rain, trying to make a life for themselves and the child they expect. Through a rich web of historical, cultural, and theological allusions, Fosse constructs a modern parable of injustice, resistance, crime, and redemption. Consisting of three novellas (Wakefulness, Olav's Dreams, and Weariness), Trilogy is a haunting, mysterious, and poignant evocation of love, for which Fosse received The Nordic Council's Prize for Literature in 2015.… (more) |
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Information from the German Common Knowledge. Edit to localize it to your language. Asle und Alida gingen umher in den Straßen Bjørgvins, über der Schulter trug Asle zwei Bündel mit all ihrer Habe und in der Hand den Fiedelkasten mit der Fiedel, die er vom Vater, dem Sigvald ererbt hatte, und Alida trug zwei Netze mit Essen und jetzt waren sie mehrere Stunden lang in den Straßen Bjørgvins umhergegangen und hatten ein Obdach gesucht, aber es schien unmöglich, irgendwo etwas zu finden, nein, sagten alle, wir haben leider nichts zu vermieten, nein, sagten sie, was wir haben, ist schon vergeben, so sagten sie und Asle und Alida mussten weiter in den Straßen umhergehen und an Türen klopfen und fragen, ob sie dort in einem Hause Obdach fänden, | |
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Information from the German Common Knowledge. Edit to localize it to your language. und sie geht weiter hinaus und dann ist Asle überall um sie herum genau wie an dem Abend, als sie sich das erste Mal gesehen haben und er zum Tanz aufspielte zum ersten Mal da in Dylgja, und alles ist nur noch Asle und Alida und dann schlagen die Wellen über Alida zusammen und Alise geht hinaus in die Wellen und sie geht weiter und immer weiter geht sie in die Wellen und dann schlägt eine Welle über ihr graues Haar (Click to show. Warning: May contain spoilers.) | |
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▾References References to this work on external resources. Wikipedia in EnglishNone ▾Book descriptions Trilogy is Jon Fosse's critically acclaimed, luminous love story about Asle and Alida, two lovers trying to find their place in this world. Homeless and sleepless, they wander around Bergen in the rain, trying to make a life for themselves and the child they expect. Through a rich web of historical, cultural, and theological allusions, Fosse constructs a modern parable of injustice, resistance, crime, and redemption. Consisting of three novellas (Wakefulness, Olav's Dreams, and Weariness), Trilogy is a haunting, mysterious, and poignant evocation of love, for which Fosse received The Nordic Council's Prize for Literature in 2015. ▾Library descriptions No library descriptions found. ▾LibraryThing members' description
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All three parts deal with a young couple, Alida and Asle, who run away from the fishing village where they grew up when Alida becomes pregnant. In the first part, they are walking through the rainy streets of Bergen looking for a place to stay - with obvious biblical overtones, the townspeople insist that there is no room in the inn, but eventually they find a place for Alida to bring her son into the world. In the second part, Asle, now called Olav, goes through a nightmarish experience in the town on his own, and we get a new view of what happened in the first part. In the third part, we shift to the viewpoint of Alida, as seen - or imagined - by her daughter, Alise, in old age.
All three parts are written in a distinctive, poetic style, with strong echoes of the Bible (and presumably of medieval Norse texts). There also a seems to be a link to the structure of traditional Norwegian fiddle music - we're alerted to look for this because Asle and his father and son are all fiddle players. Fosse normally writes in long run-on sentences with minimal punctuation, but here and there he switches to short punchy sentences where the full stops stick out like drum beats. There's a lot of repetition, too, with phrases that come back again and again, adding to the dreamlike, meditative feel of the text established by the prevalent imagery of sleep, tiredness and dreaming.
The background to the book is one of rural poverty without a safety net. The world is tough, lives are cheap, but life goes on, fish have to be caught, and the consolations of religion seem to be irrelevant. We never get more than hints as to which century we might be in, and the hints are often contradictory - sometimes it feels like the late 19th century (as seen by Ibsen and Munch), sometimes we could be in the middle ages. Bergen is clearly still a fairly small town, without much contact with the wider world, and is always referred to by the archaic name Bjørgvin.
Not a cheerful book, by any means, but one that does interesting things with form and language: definitely something it would be interesting to read in the original. Especially if I knew more about the context! ( )