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2022 National Book Award, FinalistWritten in melodious & hypnotic ‘slow prose’, A New Name: Septology VI-VII is a transcendent exploration of the human condition & a radically other reading experience – incantatory, hypnotic, & utterly unique. Asle is an ageing painter who lives alone on the coast of Norway. His only friends are his neighbour, Åsleik, a traditional fisherman-farmer, & Beyer, a gallerist who lives in the city. There, in Bjørgvin, lives another Asle, also a painter but lonely & consumed by alcohol. Asle & Asle are doppelgängers - two versions of the same person, two versions of the same life, both grappling with existential questions. In this final instalment of Jon Fosse’s Septology, the major prose work by ‘the Beckett of the twenty-first century’ (Le Monde), Christmas is approaching. Tradition has it that Åsleik & Asle eat lutefisk together, but this year Asle has agreed for the first time to celebrate Christmas with Åsleik & his sister, Guro. On Christmas Eve, Åsleik, Asle, & the dog Bragi take Åsleik’s boat out on the Sygnefjord. Meanwhile, we follow the lives of the two Asles as younger adults in flashbacks: the narrator meets his lifelong love, Ales; joins th

Who reads A New Name: Septology VI - VII?

Author

Jon Fosse, Damion Searls (translation)

Publisher

Fitzcarraldo Editions

Published

2021

Language

EN

ISBN

9781945492570

Category

work of fiction

Subjects

Fiction, Short Stories, Literary Fiction