Original Product A New Name : Septology VIVII (UK Edition, Paperback)

Publisher: Independent Alliance

ISBN 13: 9781913097721

Condition: Brandnew

Binding: paperback

Pages: 872

Dimensons: 198 x 132 x 30 | 400 (gram)

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Written in melodious and hypnotic slow prose, Septology is an indelible and poignant exploration of the human condition by Jon Fosse, a major European writer (Karl Ove Knauaard).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 Fosses Septology, collected in English here for the first time, is a transcendent exploration of the human condition, and a radically other reading experience incantatory, hypnotic, and utterly uniqueReview QuoteFosse has written a strange mystical moebius strip of a novel, in which an artist struggles with faith and loneliness, and watches himself, or versions of himself, fall away into the lower depths. The social world seems distant and foggy in this profound, existential narrative.

Hari Kunzru, author of White TearsReview QuoteA deeply moving experience. At times while reading the first two books of Septology, I walked around in a fugue-like state, wondering what it was that I was reading, exactly. A parable A gospel A novel bereft of the usual markings of plot, time, and character The answer appeared to be all of the above, but although I usually balk at anything mystical, the effect was haunting and cumulative ... I hesitate to compare the experience of reading these works to the act of meditation. But that is the closest I can come to describing how something in the critical self is shed in the process of reading Fosse, only to be replaced by something more primal. A mood. An atmosphere. The sound of words moving on a page.

Ruth Margalit, New York Review of BooksReview Quote'Septology feels momentous.

Catherine Taylor, GuardianReview QuoteHaving read the Norwegian writer Jon Fosses Septology, an extraordinary seven-novel sequence about an old mans recursive reckoning with the braided realities of God, art, identity, family life and human life itself, Ive come into awe and reverence myself for idiosyncratic forms of immense metaphysical fortitude.