Septology

Jon Fosse, Damion Searls (trans.)

Septology
Format
Paperback
Publisher
Giramondo Publishing Co
Country
Australia
Published
1 October 2022
Pages
752
ISBN
9781922725363

Septology

Jon Fosse, Damion Searls (trans.)

Winner of The Nobel Prize in Literature 2023

What makes us who we are? And why do we lead one life and not another? Asle, an ageing painter and widower who lives alone on the southwest coast of Norway, is reminiscing about his life. His only friends are his neighbour, Asleik, a traditional fisherman-farmer, and Beyer, a gallerist who lives in the city. There, in Bjorgvin, lives another Asle, also a painter but lonely and consumed by alcohol. Asle and Asle are doppelgangers - 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.

Jon Fosse’s Septology is a transcendent exploration of the human condition, and a radically other reading experience - incantatory, hypnotic and utterly unique.

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