A New Name

Septology VI-VII

A New Name
Damion Searls, Jon Fosse
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h197 x 125mm - 232pg
8 Sep 2021 UK
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9781913097721
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Asle is an ageing painter and widower who lives alone on the southwest coast of Norway. His only friends are his neighbour, Asleik, a traditional fisherman-farmer, and Beyer, a gallerist who lives in the city. There, in Bjorgvin, lives another Asle, also a painter but lonely and consumed by alcohol. 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), Christmas is approaching. Tradition has it that Asleik and Asle eat lutefisk together, but this year Asle has agreed for the first time to celebrate Christmas with Asleik and his sister, Guro. On Christmas Eve, Asleik, Asle, and the dog Bragi take Asleik' s boat out on the Sygnefjord. Meanwhile, we follow the lives of the two Asles as younger adults in flashbacks: the narrator meets his lifelong love, Ales; joins the Catholic Church; starts exhibiting with Beyer; and can make a living by trying to paint away all the pictures stuck in his mind. After a while, Asle and Ales leave the city and move to the house in Dylgja. The other Asle gets married too, but his wedding ends with a sobbing bride and is followed soon after by a painful breakup. 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.
' Jon Fosse is a major European writer. ' - Karl Ove Knausgaard, author of My Struggle' Fosse' s fusing of the commonplace and the existential, together with his dramatic forays into the past, make for a relentlessly consuming work: already Septology feels momentous. ' - Catherine Taylor, Guardian' In The Other Name: Septology I-II' s rhythmic accumulation of words, [there is] something incantatory and self-annihilating - something that feels almost holy. ' - Sam Sacks, Wall Street Journal
Jon Fosse was born in 1959 on the west coast of Norway and is the recipient of countless prestigious prizes, both in his native Norway and abroad. Since his 1983 fiction debut, Raudt, Svart [Red, Black], Fosse has written prose, poetry, essays, short stories, children' s books, and over forty plays, with more than a thousand productions performed and translations into fifty languages. A New Name is the second volume in Septology, his latest prose work, published in three volumes by Fitzcarraldo Editions.

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