Description

A man starts driving without knowing where he is going.He alternates between turning right and left, and finallyhe gets stuck at the end ofa forest road. Soon it gets darkand starts to snow, but instead of going back to find help,he ventures, foolishly, into the dark forest. Inevitably,the man gets lost, and as he grows cold and tired, heencountersa glowing being amid the obscurity. Strange,haunting and dreamlike,A Shiningis the latest workof fiction by Jon Fosse, the Beckett of the twenty-firstcentury (Le Monde).