I is Another (Septology III-V)(Jon Fosse - Winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature 2023)

Name: I is Another (Septology III-V)(Jon Fosse - Winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature 2023)
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English • Age Adult - Adult

平裝書 Paperback • 304 pages • 12.8 x 19.7 x 2.8 cm

Approx. weight: 0.37 kg

Publication date: 07 Oct,2020

Barcode: 9781913097387 • Faber & Faber

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By: Jon Fosse | Translator: Damion Searls

Asle is an ageing painter and widower who lives alone on the southwest coast of Norway. 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. In this second instalment of Jon Fosse’s Septology, ‘a major work of Scandinavian fiction’ (Hari Kunzru), the two Asles meet for the first time in their youth. They look strangely alike, dress identically, and both want to be painters. At art school in Bjørgvin, Asle meets and falls in love with his future wife, Ales. Written in melodious and hypnotic ‘slow prose’,,i> I is Another: Septology III-V is an exquisite metaphysical novel about love, art, God, friendship, and the passage of time.

About the Author

Jon Fosse was born in 1959 on the west coast of Norway. 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’.