Seven Steps to Heaven: Bard Writer in Residence Wyatt Mason on Author Jon Fosse
Norwegian writer Jon Fosse’s novel Septology “showcases a static protagonist who stares endlessly at a painting, seeking its meaning while ruminating on his past. The book sounds, in summary, terrible: pretentious, self-serious, unendurable. This makes it all the more remarkable how wonderful it is,” writes Bard Writer in Residence Wyatt Mason. “The book evades all those pitfalls to become something quite different from what it might seem, something that, like all great novels, somehow exceeds our prior idea of what a novel is.”
Post Date: 08-10-2021
Post Date: 08-10-2021