The Other Name — WINNER OF THE 2023 NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATURE E-Book

Jon Fosse

• Herausgeber: Fitzcarraldo Editions
• Kategorie: Gesellschafts- und Liebesromane
• Sprache: Englisch
• Veröffentlichungsjahr: 2019

Beschreibung

What makes us who we are? And why do we lead one life and not another? The year is coming to a close and 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 life, death, love, light and shadow, faith and hopelessness. Written in melodious and hypnotic 'slow prose', The Other Name: Septology I-II is an indelible and poignant exploration of the human condition by Jon Fosse, 'a major European writer' (Karl Ove Knausgaard), in which everything is always there, and past and present flow together.

Leseprobe

‘Jon Fosse is a major European writer.’

— Karl Ove Knausgaard, author of My Struggle

‘The Beckett of the twenty-first century.’

— Le Monde

‘Fosse 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, which is only the first part of what promises to be a major work of Scandinavian fiction.’

— Hari Kunzru, author of White Tears

‘Fosse has been compared to Ibsen and to Beckett, and it is easy to see his work as Ibsen stripped down to its emotional essentials. But it is much more. For one thing, it has a fierce poetic simplicity.’

— New York Times

‘Undoubtedly one of the world’s most important and versatile literary voices.’

— Irish Examiner

‘Fosse is one of our most distinctive authors, a mystic whose language allows nature to live, a poet who with his voice makes prose sing.’

— Dagbladet

‘Jon Fosse has managed, like few others, to carve out a literary form of his own.’

— Nordic Council Literary Prize

THE OTHER NAME: SEPTOLOGY I-II

JON FOSSE

Translated by

DAMION SEARLS

To Anna

‘And I will give him a white stone, and on the stone a new name written, which no one knows except him who receives it.’

— Revelation

‘Dona nobis pacem.’

— Agnus Dei

Contents

Title PageDedicationEpigraphIIIAbout the AuthorsCopyright

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