Scenes From A Childhood ~ Jon Fosse

 Scenes From A Childhood

~ Jon fosse

•  Scenes From A Childhood:-

I Just Can’t Get The Guitar Tuned:-

It’s about a funny event in Jon Fosse’s childhood.

He describes here how he was unable to tune a guitar amidst loud chaos and broke two guitar strings simultaneously. 

                      

 It Has Stopped Snowing:-

                It is about a beautiful snowy childhood memory. They were pushing the snow around and beating it down flat and hard with shovels. They were also removing snow from the road. A beautiful reminiscing of a snowy day.

 Forget It:-

            It is about logging experience and how did they escape it.

 

  Potatoes and Onions:-

            It is about getting a new radio and listening to his favorite slow dark guitar solos.

  My Grandmother is Lying In Bed:-

            This is about the demise of Jon Fosse’s Grandmother and her last days.

                   

Water Gun:-

This is about a drastic accident that Jon Fosse had during his childhood. Though he could barely move his injured arm still he seeks a water gun.

 Scars Visible On His Fist:-

It is about childhood tantrums that Jon Fosse made when he burst out of anger and then he hid under his parent's bed.

Concrete Edges:-

This story is about Jon Fosse’s tavernous friend who fell on a concrete stair and broke his all front teeth.

 

That Weird Guy:-

            It is about Jon Fosse’s first approach to his beloved.

 

Awfully Good:-

            It’s about the taste of a stew and the savage complement ‘Awfully Good’.

 

You Could Have Played The Fiddle:-

            It is about nodding a guitar and later on the Hardanger fiddle in a café after missing a bus. 

Bjorn And I Are Going To Hiking In The Mountains:-

            It is about the drunken moment of Jon Fosse and His friend at the Mountain Top.

 

 Red Kiss Mark On The Letter:-

This story is special. It’s a cute love story of Jon Fosse when letters were the only medium of texting. His beloved used to send him letters ‘with big red kiss mark on it’.

But somehow it does not end like it should be. This reminds me of the love story from the movie ‘MS Dhoni the Untold Story’.

Friendship:-

This story is about a bibber friend who Just got bail and again created a ruckus in front of all.

 

Asle Wants a Dog of His Own:-

            As the title suggests, the story is about Asle’s wish to have a pet dog.

 A Thing:-

Asle and his cousin were good friends. Once she decided to give him an electric guitar as a gift. Everyone was happy when the ‘red and black’ guitar arrived from the city, but they were shadowed when they realized it was not an original one.

 

 Asle Has Never Read A Book:-

            It is about Asle’s first read of a Novel and then he falls in love with books.

  Always Be Friend:-

            It is about the demise of Jon Fosse’s friend.

The Cabin:-

            This story is about Jon Fosse’s willingness to start a school and build a cabin for it.

 

 Paying A Visit:-

This story is about a friend Tollak who pays a sudden visit to Asle’s home. Where they get a bit nostalgic and also engage in political discussion.

 

Everyone probably knows that:-

It is about an incident of drunk Asle who was about to sink into the fjord. Somehow Asmund saves him and turns him back to the ground.

 

•     How It started:-

In this story, Jon Fosse confesses about his beloved whom he met again after a long time.

They met at the pastor’s home. Though they were unaware of each other’s feelings, they got a chance to be intimate while returning home with friends through the dark, cloudy, rain-drenched street. They were playing a ‘truth and dare’ type game ‘Touch-Hug-kiss’ and she chose him to be her male counterpart.

 

“That is how it started, in the dark, the rain, on a road along a shore, there were waves always beating……. Her kiss was a mark on my skin, it was like entered into my body and stayed there. “

•    Dreamt In Stone:-

‘Dreamt in Stone’ by Jon Fosse is about a room behind a wall of Stones. You can taste a bit of ‘Surrealism’ for which Jon Fosse is widely recognized.

            The narrator is in the room, surrounded by stones and strong invisible light from the sky, the light of Nothingness.

The Novel unfolds experiences a series of vivid dreams that intertwine with his walking reality blurring the lines between the two.

"The taxi driver said that he often thought about nothing, how nothingness is in everything."

•   And Then My Dog Will Come Back To Me:-

It is about a horrible dark event. It is about a man in rural Norway who murdered a neighbour for killing his dog.

‘Anaphora’ another feature of Jon Fosse can be seen here.

•   Little Sister:-

 

  Tall Grass:-

It is when Jon Fosse suddenly discovers himself amid beautiful nature on a fine morning.

“The air was so soft, the morning so bright at the same time a little hazy.”

                                

 

•   Reading Reaction:-

The stories captured in ‘Scenes from a Childhood’ have quite disturbing aspects of Love and childhood. There is something quietly brilliant that shines through this idiosyncratic collection of short stories. A distinct and original voice is present throughout the text. Few stories reveal dark Nordic fantasies.

Stories Like “How It Started”, “Dreamt in Stone”, and “Little Sister” all complete his ideology and views. Here you can taste “Surrealism” and “Anaphora” for which Jon Fosse is widely recognized.

Once Jon Fosse Said – “To me, writing is a kind of listening. I don’t know what I am listening to, but I am listening.”

Jon Fosse is our age’s great writer of ‘light and darkness’.

A true confession is that Jon Fosse originally wrote his novels in the “Nynorsk” script. That is why his work is better in the Norwegian Language.

 

 

First reaction of Jon Fosse after becoming 2023 Nobel
 Prize winner in Literature...

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