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Author:

Fosse, Jon, 1959- author. 233231

Title:

Septology / Jon Fosse ; translated from the Norwegian by Damion Searls.

Publisher:

Transit Books,

Copyright Date:

2022

Description:

667 pages ; 23 cm

Subject:

Older men--Norway--Fiction.
Painters--Fiction.
Widowers--Fiction.
Doppelgängers--Fiction.
Identity (Philosophical concept)--Fiction.
Loneliness--Fiction.
Norway--Fiction.
Experimental fiction.
Philosophical fiction.

Other Authors:

Searls, Damion translator. 144105

Other Titles:

Septologien. English

Notes:

Year of publication taken from publisher's website.

Contents:

I-II. The other name -- III-V. I is another -- VI-VII. A new name.

Summary:

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 transcendent exploration of the human condition, and a radically other reading experience--incantatory, hypnotic, and utterly unique.

ISBN:

1945492678
9781945492679

OCLC:

(OCoLC)1315740543

Locations:

GBPF771 -- Ankeny Kirkendall Public Library (Ankeny)

UNUX074 -- University of Northern Iowa - Rod Library (Cedar Falls)

BAPH771 -- Des Moines Public Library (Des Moines)

ALPE516 -- Fairfield Public Library (Fairfield)