by Jon Fosse
Larva: A Midsummer Night’s Babel.
Poundemonium.
AUGUSTO ROA BASTOS, I the Supreme.
DANIËL ROBBERECHTS,
Arriving in Avignon.
OLIVIER ROLIN, Hotel Crystal.
ALIX CLEO ROUBAUD, Alix’s Journal.
JACQUES ROUBAUD, The Form of a City Changes Faster, Alas, Than the Human Heart.
The Great Fire of London.
Hortense in Exile.
Hortense Is Abducted.
The Loop.
The Plurality of Worlds of Lewis.
The Princess Hoppy.
Some Thing Black.
LEON S. ROUDIEZ,
French Fiction Revisited.
VEDRANA RUDAN, Night.
STIG SÆTERBAKKEN, Siamese.
LYDIE SALVAYRE, The Company of Ghosts.
Everyday Life.
The Lecture.
Portrait of the Writer as a Domesticated Animal.
The Power of Flies.
LUIS RAFAEL SÁNCHEZ,
Macho Camacho’s Beat.
SEVERO SARDUY, Cobra & Maitreya.
NATHALIE SARRAUTE,
Do You Hear Them?
Martereau.
The Planetarium.
ARNO SCHMIDT, Collected Stories.
Nobodaddy’s Children.
CHRISTINE SCHUTT, Nightwork.
GAIL SCOTT, My Paris.
DAMION SEARLS, What We Were Doing and Where We Were Going.
JUNE AKERS SEESE,
Is This What Other Women Feel Too?
What Waiting Really Means.
BERNARD SHARE, Inish.
Transit.
AURELIE SHEEHAN, Jack Kerouac Is Pregnant.
VIKTOR SHKLOVSKY, Knight’s Move.
A Sentimental Journey: Memoirs 1917–1922.
Energy of Delusion: A Book on Plot.
Literature and Cinematography.
Theory of Prose.
Third Factory.
Zoo, or Letters Not about Love.
CLAUDE SIMON, The Invitation.
PIERRE SINIAC, The Collaborators.
JOSEF ŠKVORECKÝ The Engineer of Human Souls.
GILBERT SORRENTINO,
Aberration of Starlight.
Blue Pastoral.
Crystal Vision.
Imaginative Qualities of Actual Things.
Mulligan Stew.
Pack of Lies.
Red the Fiend.
The Sky Changes.
Something Said.
Splendide-Hôtel.
Steelwork.
Under the Shadow.
W. M. SPACKMAN,
The Complete Fiction.
ANDRZEJ STASIUK, Fado.
GERTRUDE STEIN,
Lucy Church Amiably.
The Making of Americans.
A Novel of Thank You.
LARS SVENDSEN, A Philosophy of Evil.
PIOTR SZEWC, Annihilation.
GONÇALO M. TAVARES, Jerusalem.
LUCIAN DAN TEODOROVICI,
Our Circus Presents . . .
STEFAN THEMERSON, Hobson’s Island.
The Mystery of the Sardine.
Tom Harris.
JOHN TOOMEY, Sleepwalker.
JEAN-PHILIPPE TOUSSAINT,
The Bathroom.
Camera.
Monsieur.
Running Away.
Self-Portrait Abroad.
Television.
DUMITRU TSEPENEAG,
Hotel Europa.
The Necessary Marriage.
Pigeon Post.
Vain Art of the Fugue.
ESTHER TUSQUETS, Stranded.
DUBRAVKA UGRESIC,
Lend Me Your Character.
Thank You for Not Reading.
MATI UNT, Brecht at Night.
Diary of a Blood Donor.
Things in the Night.
ÁLVARO URIBE AND OLIVIA SEARS, EDS.,
Best of Contemporary Mexican Fiction.
ELOY URROZ, Friction.
The Obstacles.
LUISA VALENZUELA, He Who Searches.
PAUL VERHAEGHEN, Omega Minor.
BORIS VIAN, Heartsnatcher.
LLORENÇ VILLALONGA, The Dolls’ Room.
ORNELA VORPSI, The Country Where No One Ever Dies.
AUSTRYN WAINHOUSE, Hedyphagetica.
PAUL WEST,
Words for a Deaf Daughter & Gala.
CURTIS WHITE,
America’s Magic Mountain.
The Idea of Home.
Memories of My Father Watching TV.
Monstrous Possibility: An Invitation to Literary Politics.
Requiem.
DIANE WILLIAMS, Excitability: Selected Stories.
Romancer Erector.
DOUGLAS WOOLF, Wall to Wall.
Ya! & John-Juan.
JAY WRIGHT, Polynomials and Pollen.
The Presentable Art of Reading Absence.
PHILIP WYLIE, Generation of Vipers.
MARGUERITE YOUNG,
Angel in the Forest.
Miss MacIntosh, My Darling.
REYOUNG, Unbabbling.
VLADO ŽABOT, The Succubus.
ZORAN ŽIVKOVI, Hidden Camera.
LOUIS ZUKOFSKY, Collected Fiction.
SCOTT ZWIREN, God Head.
The translator would like to thank Mari Jahrsengene, Grethe Fatima Syéd, and Jon Fosse for their assistance. This translation is dedicated to Barry and Joyce Peterson.
Originally published in Norwegian as Det er Ales by Det Norske Samlaget, 2004
Copyright © 2003 by marebuchverlag, Hamburg
Copyright © 2003 by Jon Fosse
Translation copyright © 2010 by Damion Searls
First edition, 2010
All rights reserved
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Fosse, Jon, 1959-
[Det er Ales. English]
Aliss at the fire / Jon Fosse ; translated by Damion Searls. -- 1st U.S. ed.
p. cm.
“Originally published in Norwegian as Det er Ales by Det Norske Samlaget, 2004”--T.p. verso.
ISBN 978-1-564-78573-2 (pbk. : alk. paper)
ISBN 978-1-564-78995-2 (e-book)
I. Searls, Damion. II. Title.
PT8951.16.O73D4813 2010
839.82’374--dc22
2010014682
Partially funded by the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and by a grant from the Illinois Arts Council, a state agency
This translation has been published with the financial support of NORLA
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