Norwegian author was expected to make a short acceptance speech for the 2023 Nobel Prize Jon Fosse And so it was. Perhaps because the playwright’s and novelist’s books are compact, contain restrained expressions and almost no subordinate clauses. This was his speech under the title ‘Silent Language’, which began the definition of what language was for him. literary truth because, to the chagrin of French philosopher Jacques Derrida: “The most important thing in life cannot be said, it can only be written.”
The author of ‘Septet’ – his masterpiece – began by remembering for the first time I had to read out loud in class, When I was at highschool. HE fear It paralyzed him and he ran out of class. At the Swedish Academy yesterday afternoon, he overcame the fear that always accompanied him, after managing to persuade the teachers to excuse him. “In a way, fear took my tongue and I had to take it back, so to speak. And if I had to do it, I could do it on my own, not on someone else’s terms. The author said he later discovered a “secret” place belonging only to him, where he claimed to continue writing.
He also talked about his career, his novels for which he received bad reviews, and his transformation. playwright -in this way, it gained international fame and also met its food needs- and finally narrator again in the last 15 years. Religious desire (the author’s conversion to Catholicism and this changing his worldview) was also present in the speech; Without it, Fosse’s literature would be incomprehensible. “I once said in an interview: Writing is a kind of prayer. And when I saw it in print, I was mortified. But later, as consolation, I read that Franz Kafka had said the same thing.” As a result, just as many readers told him that his writing had saved their lives, this helped him to consider that writing had probably saved theirs, too.