Septology

Oakland, California: Transit Books, 2022. First US edition; 3rd printing (number line). Small quarto in grey jacket; 667 pages; 23 cm FIne in fine jackert; as new. Hardcover. ISBN: 9781945492679

Translated into English from the Norwegian. Winner of the 2023 Nobel Prize in Literature, this work was also a finalist for several major honors in 2022, including the International Booker Prize, the National Book Award, and the National Book Critics Circle Award. It was chosen as a New York Times Editors’ Choice and named one of the best books of the year by The New Yorker and Bookforum. Furthermore, The New York Times selected it as one of the 100 best books of the 21st Century. // "What makes us who we are? And why do we lead one life and not another? Asle, an aging painter and widower who lives alone on the southwest coast of Norway, is reminiscing about his life. His only friends are his neighbor, 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 here for the first time, are a transcendent exploration of the human condition, and a radically other reading experience--incantatory, hypnotic, and utterly unique" —Publsiher (dust jacket) Contents: I-II. The other name. III-V. I is another. VI-VII. A new name. // Norwegian literature; Experimental fiction // NB: Photos are blurry due to camera being accidentally set to portrait mode! // **Somewhat heavy item. Additional shipping fees may be needed for expedited or international orders. Please inquire**