A Shining
Jon Fosse · b. 1959 · Norway
Originally A Shining (Norwegian) · translated by Damion Searls
Why it matters
A man's car breaks down on a forest road at dusk, and what follows dissolves into something between vision and death. A short, luminous late work distilling Fosse's lifelong preoccupation with light beyond ordinary sight.
At a glance
philosophical novelexistentialist
Difficulty 6/10slow pace80 pagesShort but hallucinatory, dissolving the line between event and vision.
