Scenes from a Childhood

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Winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature 2023

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.

'Fosse has been compared to Ibsen and to Beckett, and it is easy to see his work as Ibsen stripped down to its emotional essentials. But it is much more. For one thing, it has a fierce poetic simplicity.' - New York Times

Book details and technical specifications

Format: Paperback / softback
ISBN13: 9781910695531
Published: April 2018

Number of pages: 160
Width: 125 mm
Height: 197 mm
Depth: not specified

Publisher: Fitzcarraldo Editions