A Silent Language

The essential lecture delivered by the 2023 Nobel Laureate in Literature, published for the first time in a collectible edition. “If there’s any metaphor I would use for the act of writing, it would have to be listening,” says Jon Fosse in A Silent Language, the lecture he delivered after being awarded the 2023 Nobel Prize in Literature. When he writes, Fosse explains, he listens for texts that e...