Jon Fosse and the New Theatre

The author’s original, interdisciplinary perspective on Jon Fosse’s drama is often audacious, but her research is conducted with skill and scientific circumspection. She draws certain metaphorical and intuitive connections between quantum physics and Jon Fosse’s drama that later serve as investigative tools for the applied analysis of the selected plays by means of concepts such as entanglement, spacetime and so on. Right from the introduction and the first chapters, the working hypotheses are coherently and boldly correlated with the process of close reading as a chosen method of analysis. – Sanda Tomescu Baciu

This book looks at Fosse’s plays as books to read, and the analysis will, in spite of the fact one identifies old themes like love, death, communication, relationships, betrayal, regret, suffering, remembering or childhood in Fosse’s plays, focus on the way one experiences each of these, as the Fosse’an perspective shines a new light on them. It is this sensibility and privilege that the reader is offered and that becomes even more personal as reading progresses. Moreover, when reading, one is connected to one’s past, so a return to the self (past self) happens, which can be an emotional experience. This is the case with any good literature, however, this is even more the case with Jon Fosse, since his literature urges the reader to intervene, to contribute with his/her own rhythm, breath and time in the pauses that are also a reflection on the information acquired and the experience just undergone. – Anamaria Babias-Ciobanu