Cover of The Other Name: Septology I-II

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The Other Name: Septology I-II

Portrait of Jon FosseJon Fosse

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The first of the three volumes of Jon Fosse's "Septology", translated from the Norwegian by Damion Searls. Asle, an ageing painter and widower on the west coast of Norway, looks back on his life, while in nearby Bergen lives another Asle, also a painter, who may be another version of himself. The whole work unfolds as a single flowing sentence.

GenreLiterary fiction· first published 2019

Vivek’s Notes

From the bibliography of a 21st-century Nobel laureate in literature, alongside the rest of the Septology.

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