A Silent Language: The Nobel Lecture

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 exist somewhere outside of himself in order to transcribe them before they disappear. With revere...