Three months before his new novel ends up on the store shelves, the author reveals details to American magazine.
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- Jon Fosse releases three new novels: “Vaim”, “Vaim Hotel” and “Vaim Week magazine”, the first comes in the fall of 2025.
- Excerpt from the first book, “Elias”, is shared with The New Yorker.
- There, among other things, it is about meeting MKED a ghost.
- Fosse, who won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2023, describes the characters as parts of themselves.
Jon Fosse (65) comes with a new boxing series: “Vaim”, “Vaim Hotel” and “Vaim Week magazine”.
The books will be released in the fall of 2025, 2026 and 2027. But already well before the first book is released, Fosse shares a larger excerpt With the magazine The New Yorker Sunday 1 June.
– I don’t want to call it a trilogy. There are three separate novels that are interconnected because they take place in the same fictional place, says Fosse.
He has also provided an interview to the magazinewhere the conversation revolves around the novelist Elias.
A part of himself
“Elias” is also the title of the extract Like The New Yorker, share with his readers. Fosse’s regular translator Damion Searls has translated from Norwegian.
The excerpt is an inner monologue from a man in a small Norwegian village, a loner with only one friend, to whom he also has a strained relationship. Elias is one of three storytellers in “Vaim”.
The New Yorker points out that Elias is “an anxious and isolated person”, and when they ask Fosse about how easy it was for him to go inside Elias’ head, the author replies:
– Not difficult at all. I feel sympathy for all my characters. And in a way, I think every single figure I have written about is also part of the one I am.
About ghost
The action involves a meeting with a ghost, writes the magazine – a character that looks like a living human being, but which is really dead.
Foss is asked how he looks at ghosts himself.
– I feel that the word “ghost” is wrong, he replies – and justifies it that it limits the experience Elias has too much, or that it actually possibly possibly explains Too much.
Fosse reflects on the topic and asks what is real and not real. He states that as a writer he writes about what is “out there”.
– What it means, I don’t know. If I knew it, I shouldn’t have written it. I see no points in writing puzzles. Life is enigmatic in itself.
Everything takes place in the fictional village of Vaim. Fosse informs that it is not based on the village he himself grew up, even though it has elements from different places in Western Norway.
Fosse spent his first years in Kvam municipality in Hardanger.
– But from a different perspective, all I write is related to the village I grew up in and spent my most formative years, even though I haven’t lived there since I was fifteen.
Looking back on Fosse’s Nobel speech a year and a half ago:
Fosse, as in 2023 received the Nobel Prize in Literatureexplains that the language, the landscape, the moods “come from that place”.
The author’s star says that for him writing is a form of listening.
– I listen, of course, to what I have already written. And then to something unknown, a place out there.
He plans nothing, he assures.
– Writing just happens.
“Vaim” will be launched at the International Fosse festival, which the publisher Samlaget organizes together with the Norwegian Theater in September.
It is the first novel Fosse publishes after he was rewarded with the Nobel Prize.
The three coming books have a light and humorous tone, the publisher has previously stated.
Okay, here’s a discussion based on the article.
Characters:
Sarah: Time.news Editor
Dr. Anya Sharma: Literary Scholar specializing in contemporary Nordic Literature
Setting: Sarah’s office at Time.news
(Scene opens with Sarah at her desk, reviewing notes.Dr. Sharma sits opposite her.)
Sarah: Dr. Sharma,thanks so much for coming in. Jon Fosse releasing three interconnected novels over the
