Readers of English who knew Fosse before his Nobel perhaps had seen one of his plays...or read his seven-book suite of novels called Septology, a three-volume single sentence monologue that is simultaneously a radiant liturgy, a doppelganger story, an ars poetica, and a profoundly moving meditation on love and ageing and death.
And though a thick, monologuing, metaphysical novel may seem daunting to a casual reader, one of Fosse's peculiarities is how accessible his work is to nearly anyone who'll allow themselves to simply succumb and let the gentle waves of his prose break over them.
Some of this accessibility is surely due to Fosse's translator into English, the great Damion Searls, whose intelligence, subtlety and attention to rhythm are again evident in A Shining.
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