' 'Jon Fosse is a major European writer.' - Karl Ove Knausgaard, author of The Wolves of Eternity ' - ' 'The Beckett of the twenty-first century.' - Le Monde ' - ' '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 ' - ' 'Jon Fosse has managed, like few others, to carve out a literary form of his own.' - Nordic Council Literary Prize ' - ' 'A deeply moving experience. At times while reading the first two books of Septology, I walked around in a fugue-like state, wondering what it was that I was reading, exactly.

A parable? A gospel? A novel bereft of the usual markings of plot, time, and character? The answer appeared to be all of the above, but although I usually balk at anything mystical, the effect was haunting and cumulative . I hesitate to compare the experience of reading these works to the act of meditation. But that is the closest I can come to describing how something in the critical self is shed in the process of reading Fosse, only to be replaced by something more primal. A mood. An atmosphere. The sound of words moving on a page.' - Ruth Margalit, New York Review of Books ' - '' -.