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Nicholas Taylor-Collins

Literary researcher | Creative reader

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  • The forest of discovery in Jon Fosse’s ‘A Shining’

    The forest of discovery in Jon Fosse’s ‘A Shining’

    The 2023 Nobel laureate Jon Fosse inverts Plato’s Allegory of the Cave in his book ‘A Shining’, portraying a journey of confusion and ghostly visions within a dark forest. Unlike Plato’s enlightenment through external light, Fosse suggests a discovery of truth within darkness, paralleling certainty with confusion and using the forest as a metaphorical space…