Septology
Book - 2022
"What makes us who we are? And why do we lead one life and not another? Asle, an aging painter and widower who lives alone on the southwest coast of Norway, is reminiscing about his life. His only friends are his neighbor, Åsleik, a traditional fisherman-farmer, and Beyer, a gallerist who lives in the city. There, in Bjørgvin, lives another Asle, also a painter but lonely and consumed by alcohol. Asle and Asle are doppelgängers--two versions of the same person, two versions of the same life, both grappling with existential questions about death, love, light and shadow, faith and hopelessness. The three volumes of Jon Fosse's Septology--The Other Name, I is Another, and A New Name--collected here for the first time, are a transc...endent exploration of the human condition, and a radically other reading experience--incantatory, hypnotic, and utterly unique" --
- Subjects
- Genres
- Experimental fiction
Fiction
Philosophical fiction
Psychological fiction
Novels - Published
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Oakland, California :
Transit Books
[2022]
- Language
- English
Norwegian (Nynorsk) - Main Author
- Other Authors
- Item Description
- "Originally published in English translation by Fitzcarraldo Editions in the UK"--Title page verso.
Date of publication from publisher's website. - Physical Description
- 667 pages ; 23 cm
- ISBN
- 9781945492754
9781945492679
- I-II. The other name
- III-V. I is another
- VI-VII. A new name.