Episode Four: Little Sister (Part One)
A selection of short stories by the winner of the 2023 Nobel Prize in Literature. Ep 4/5 A four-year-old boy and his three-year-old sister slip out of the house, unnoticed.
A selection of connected short stories by the celebrated Norwegian author Jon Fosse, winner of the 2023 Nobel Prize in Literature - βfor his innovative plays and prose which give voice to the unsayableβ. Minimalist and compelling, these pared-back vignettes take us from infancy to awkward adolescence, skirting the line between fiction and autobiography. Episodes one to three draw stories from the titular story sequence 'Scenes from a Childhood'; episodes four and five are taken from the story 'Little Sister'.
'the Beckett of the twenty-first century' - Le Monde
βFosse 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.β - New York Times
Translated from the Norwegian by Damion Searls
Read by John Mackay
Produced by Mary Ward-Lowery and Mair Bosworth
Mixed by Ilse Lademann
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- Thu 25 Jan 2024 22:45ΒιΆΉΤΌΕΔ Radio 4