Trilogy (Norwegian Literature) by Jon Fosse

Author:Jon Fosse [Fosse, Jon]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Dalkey Archive Press
Published: 2016-12-09T06:00:00+00:00

Weariness

IV

Ales pulls the wool blanket tighter around herself, for it’s a little cold, yes it is, she thinks, as she sits there in her chair and looks at the window almost completely covered by thin white curtains, the light comes in only through a tiny crack at the very bottom, she sees without seeing in a way, and then she sees someone walk past outside the window, and who it is she cannot see, but that someone walked past, that she could see, and this is where she lives, she thinks, in a small house as close to the road as you could possibly get, it turned out that she would live her life in such a house, she thinks, and if it weren’t for the curtains everyone could see her where she was sitting, they could still see her sitting there now, but not clearly, they can just see that someone is sitting there, she thinks, but does it matter if someone can see her sitting there? no not at all, she thinks, it doesn’t matter one little bit, she thinks, no it doesn’t, she thinks, and she tries to pull the wool blanket even closer around her body and then she thinks you are Ales, yes you are old Ales, yes, she thinks, for now you’ve grown old, Ales, she thinks, and now you sit there in your chair and try to keep warm, she thinks, and then she thinks that she must try to stand up and put some more wood in the stove and she gets on her feet and she walks towards the stove and she opens the door to the stove and puts some more wood in the stove before she walks back to her chair, sits down, spreads the wool blanket over herself, covers herself with it and then she sits there and looks straight ahead, she looks at the window in her living room but without seeing, and then she sees Alida, her mother, as she sits in her living room in Vika just like Ales now sits in her living room and now she sees Alida stand up, slowly and stiffly, and walk, with short steps, across the floor, but where is she going? Where is she headed? Is she going out? Over to the stove there in the corner? And Ales stands up and walks with short stiff steps across the floor and then Ales sees Alida open the door to her kitchen and Alida goes into her kitchen and Ales goes into hers

I’m getting old too, Ales says

The years have passed so quickly, she says

And I never saw Alida as an old woman, not alive, but now

I see her so often, she says

I don’t understand it, she says

I’ve grown old now, she says

Old, yes, she says

Mustn’t talk, she says

And usually I’m just pottering around here, but they look in, now and then, one of the kids, one of the grandkids perhaps, she says

But usually I potter around, taking short

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