Septology Trilogy: I-II, III-V and VI-VII.

Jon Fosse; Damion Searls (translator)

ISBN 10: 1910695912 / ISBN 13: 9781910695913

Edité par Fitzcarraldo Editions, 2019

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Fine in fine wraps. Set of scarce first printings of the three volumes in the trilogy, I-II, III-V and VI-VII. Comes with one signed, loose, publisher bookplate.

N° de réf. du vendeur 99632

Détails bibliographiques

• Titre: Septology Trilogy: I-II, III-V and VI-VII.
• Éditeur: Fitzcarraldo Editions
• Date de parution: 2019
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN à 10 chiffres: 1910695912
• ISBN à 13 chiffres: 9781910695913
• Reliure: Soft cover
• Édition: 1st Edition
• État de l'article: New
• État de la jaquette: New
• Signé: Signed by Author(s)

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Synopsis

What makes us who we are? And why do we lead one life and not another? The year is coming to a close and 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 life, death, love, light and shadow, faith and hopelessness. Written in melodious and hypnotic 'slow prose', The Other Name: Septology I-II is an indelible and poignant exploration of the human condition by Jon Fosse, a major European writer' (Karl Ove Knausgaard), in which everything is always there, and past and present flow together.

À propos des auteurs

Jon Fosse was born in 1959 on the west coast of Norway and is the recipient of countless prestigious prizes, both in his native Norway and abroad. Since his 1983 fiction debut, Raudt, svart [Red, Black], Fosse has written prose, poetry, essays, short stories, children’s books and over forty plays. In 2023, he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature ‘for his innovative plays and prose which give voice to the unsayable’.

Damion Searls is a translator from German, Norwegian, French and Dutch, and a writer in English. He has translated eleven books by Jon Fosse, including the three books of Septology.