Name: Septology (in English)
Price: 53.65 USD
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Author: Jon Fosse
ISBN: 9781945492679

Type

Physical Book

Author

Jon Fosse

Translated by

Damion Searls

Publisher

Transit Books

Language

English

Pages

600

Format

Hardcover

Dimensions

21.8 x 14.7 x 4.3 cm

Weight

0.91 kg.

ISBN13

9781945492679

Synopsis "Septology (in English)"

2022 International Booker Prize, Finalist2022 National Book Award, Finalist2022 National Book Critics Circle Award, FinalistNew York Times Editors' ChoiceNamed a Best Book of the Year by The New Yorker and BookforumWhat 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 Bj rgvin, 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.

Jon Fosse

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Escritor noruego de novelas, poesía, ensayos y libros para niños. Es uno de los dramaturgos más productivos de Europa y sus obras han sido traducidas a más de cuarenta idiomas. Fosse fue nombrado Caballero de la Ordre national du Mérite de Francia en 2007, recibió el Premio Internacional Ibsen en 2010 y es el ganador del Premio Nobel de Literatura 2023.

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