Asle is an ageing painter and widower who lives alone on the
southwest coast of Norway. In nearby Bjørgvin another Asle, also a
painter, is lying in the hospital, consumed by alcoholism. Asle and
Asle are doppelgängers – two versions of the same person, two
versions of the same life, both grappling with existential questions.
In this final instalment of Jon Fosse’s Septology, the
major prose work by ‘the Beckett of the twenty-first century’ (Le
Monde), we follow the lives of the two Asles as younger adults in
flashbacks: the narrator meets his lifelong love, Ales; joins the
Catholic Church; and makes a living bytrying to paint away all the
pictures stuck in his mind. A New Name: Septology VI-VII is a
transcendent explorationof the human condition, and a radically other
reading experience – incantatory, hypnotic, and utterly unique.
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ISBN
9781913097738
Publisert
2021
Utgiver
Vendor
Fitzcarraldo Editions
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Digital bok
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