
The Girl on the Sofa by Jon Fosse
A girl sits on a sofa, not knowing what to do with herself. She argues with her mother and envies her older sister. She also longs for her absent father, a seaman. A middle-aged woman paints a portrait of herself as a young girl, sitting on a sofa, but she's beginning to doubt her artistic ability. Still at odds with her sister and her mother and haunted by her dead father, she's unable to shake the continuing presence of the past in her life -
"brilliant - Paradoxically, it creates something of great aesthetic beauty out of a work that deals with painter's block" - Guardian
Jon Fosse's work includes novels, poetry, essays and books for children. He is one of the most produced playwrights in Europe and his plays have been translated into more than forty languages. Oberon Books publishes Plays One (Someone Is Going to Come, The Name, The Guitar Man, The Child), Plays Three (Mother and Child, Sleep my Baby Sleep, Afternoon, Beautiful, Death Variations), Plays Four (And We'll Never Be Parted, The Son, Visits, Meanwhile the Lights Go Down and Everything Becomes Black), Plays Five (Suzannah, Living Secretly, The Dead Dogs, A Red Butterfly's Wing, Warm, Telemakos, Sleep), Nightsongs, The Girl on the Sofa and I Am The Wind. Fosse was made a Chevalier of the Ordre national du Merite of France in 2007 and received The International Ibsen Award in 2010.
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ISBN 13 | 9781840023268 |
ISBN 10 | 1840023260 |
Title | The Girl on the Sofa |
Author | Jon Fosse |
Series | Oberon Modern Plays |
Condition | Unavailable |
Binding Type | Paperback |
Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing PLC |
Year published | 2002-10-08 |
Number of pages | 96 |
Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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