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Embarrassed to say that I hadn't read any Fosse until he was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature just a week ago. Well, now I have, selecting for my first dive into his work the three interlocking stories of "Trilogy." The raw power of his stories is astounding. A reader begins to understand what is going on "off screen" in the first of these stories and finds it both appalling and mystifying. But love can never quite look under the stones to ascertain what ugliness might be there, nor, perhaps, does love care. In the second story, we know Asle is guilty, but he moves through a strangely abbreviated nightmare towards his demise. The relentless, rhythmic movement of Fosse's stripped down language, the meandering of the narrative through time and space, and the hints at a mythic, Biblical influence make for a powerful mix. So, I've ordered "Septology" and eagerly await its arrival at my doorstep.