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What makes us who we are? And why do we lead one life & not another? The year is coming to a close & Asle, an ageing painter & widower who lives alone on the southwest coast of Norway, is reminiscing about his life. 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 and consumed by alcohol. Asle & Asle are doppelgängers – two versions of the same person, two versions of the same life, both grappling with existential questions about life, death, love, light & shadow, faith & hopelessness. Written in melodious & hypnotic 'slow prose', The Other Name: Septology I-II is an indelible & poignant exploration of the human condition by Jon Fosse, 'a major European writer' (Karl Ove Knausgaard), in which everything is always there, & past & present flow together.'Fosse has written a strange mystical moebius strip of a...

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Author

Jon Fosse, Damion Searls (translation)

Publisher

Fitzcarraldo Editions

Published

2019

Language

EN

ISBN

9781910695920

Category

work of fiction

Subjects

Fiction, Literary Fiction, World Fiction