Septology (Jon Fosse - Winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature 2023)

Name: Septology (Jon Fosse - Winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature 2023)
Brand: Faber & Faber
SKU: 9781804270066-FFUKDTR-UK
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WINNER OF THE 2023 NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATURE

Jon Fosse (Author) • Damion Searls (Translator) ... more

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English • Age Adult - Adult

平裝書 Paperback • 825 pages • 11.5 x 19.7 x 5.8 cm

Approx. weight: 0.2 kg

Publication date: 02 Nov,2022

Barcode: 9781804270066 • Faber & Faber

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By: Jon Fosse | Translator: Damion Searls

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

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’.