Septology
Septology by Jon Fosse is a special edition published by Transit Books in 2022, featuring 667 pages in English. This work delves into profound existential questions through the lives of Asle, an ageing painter and widower living on the southwest coast of Norway, and his doppelgänger, also named Asle, who struggles with loneliness and alcoholism in the city. The narrative explores themes of identity, memory, and the choices that shape our lives, presenting a unique reading experience.
Readers will find a rich tapestry of psychological and literary elements woven throughout the three volumes of Septology: The Other Name, I is Another, and A New Name. The story unfolds in a small-town setting, where Asle’s interactions with his friends, Åsleik and Beyer, further illuminate the complexities of love, faith, and the human condition. This edition invites readers to engage with Fosse’s hypnotic prose and reflective storytelling, offering a deep exploration of what it means to be human.
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WINNER OF THE 2023 NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATURE
2022 International Booker Prize, Finalist
2022 National Book Award, Finalist
2022 National Book Critics Circle Award, Finalist
New York Times Editors’ Choice
Named a Best Book of the Year by The New Yorker and Bookforum
Selected as one of the 100 Best Books of the 21st Century by The New York Times
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, 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 in for the first time in this limited hardcover edition, are a transcendent exploration of the human condition, and a radically other reading experience–incantatory, hypnotic, and utterly unique.
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