On Jon Fosse's Vaim - Travis Jeppesen
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(2026)
Vaim is the first novel to issue forth since its author, Jon Fosse, won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2023. It doesn’t really scratch new territory, but for fans of Fosse and his bare-bones style, Vaim is a win. Vaim’s narrative is deceptively simple. That deception, together with the flow, is what pulls us in. It’s a tripartite structure. Part One is narrated by Jatgeir, a boatman who is complaining about getting ripped off while buying a needle and a thread in Bergen. Most of his rambling is centered on his boat, however, on which he lives, and which he has named after Eline, a girl he…
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