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A New Name - WINNER OF THE 2023 NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATURE

Jon Fosse, Damion Searls

From Shelf: The 2022 International Booker Prize Longlist

Written in melodious and hypnotic 'slow prose', A New Name: Septology VI-VII is a transcendent exploration of the human condition by Jon Fosse, and a radically other reading experience - incantatory, hypnotic, and utterly unique.

Asle is an ageing painter and widower who lives alone on the southwest coast of Norway. In nearby Bjorgvin another Asle, also a painter, is lying in the hospital, consumed by alcoholism. Asle and Asle are doppelgangers - 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 by trying to paint away all the pictures stuck in his mind. A New Name: Septology VI-VII is a transcendent exploration of the human condition, and a radically other reading experience - incantatory, hypnotic, and utterly unique.

Format:
Paperback / softback
Pages:
232
Publisher:
Fitzcarraldo Editions
ISBN:
9781913097721
Published Date:
8/9/2021
Dimensions:
197mm x 125mm
Category:
Fiction in translation

RRP: £12.99

Format: Paperback / softback

ISBN: 9781913097721


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