The Other Name Septology III by Jon Fosse & Translated by Damion Searls
Brand: Transit Books
Product Description
Longlisted for the 2020 International Booker Prize Fosses fusing of the commonplace and the existential together with his dramatic forays into the past make for a relentlessly consuming work already Septology feels momentous.The Guardian Fosses portrait of intersecting lives is that rare metaphysical novel that readers will find compulsively readable.Publishers Weekly Starred Review The Other Name follows the lives of two men living close to each other on the west coast of Norway. The year is coming to a close and Asle an aging painter and widower is reminiscing about his life. He lives alone his only friends being his neighbor sleik a bachelor and traditional Norwegian fishermanfarmer and Beyer a gallerist who lives in Bjrgvin a couple hours drive south of Dylgja where he lives. There in Bjrgvin lives another Asle also a painter. He and the narrator are doppelgangerstwo versions of the same person two versions of the same life. Written in hypnotic prose that shifts between the first and third person The Other Name calls into question concrete notions around subjectivity and the self. What makes us who we are And why do we lead one life and not another Through flashbacks Fosse deftly explores the convergences and divergences in the lives of both Asles slowly building towards a decisive encounter between them both. A writer at the zenith of his career with The Other Name the first two volumes in his Septology Fosse presents us with an indelible and poignant exploration of the human condition that will endure as his masterpiece. show more
Condition : New
Author : Jon Fosse Translated By Damion Searls
Weight : 505.55
Publisher : Transit Books
Language : English
EAN : 9781945492402
ISBN10 : 1945492406
Format : Paperback
Date of Publication : 20200827
Place of Publication : Oakland
Pagination : NA
Dimensions : 132.08 X 200.66 X 25.4mm