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A New Name: Septology VI - VII
Jon Fosse, Damion Searls (translation)2022 National Book Award, Finalist
Written in melodious & hypnotic ‘slow prose’, A New Name: Septology VI-VII is a transcendent exploration of the human condition & a radically other reading experience – incantatory, hypnotic, & utterly unique.
Asle is an ageing painter who lives alone on the coast of Norway. His only friends are his neighbour, Åsleik, a traditional fisherman-farmer, & Beyer, a gallerist who lives in the city. There, in Bjørgvin, lives another Asle, also a painter but lonely & consumed by alcohol. Asle & Asle are doppelgängers - 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 Åsleik & Asle eat lutefisk together, but this year Asle has agreed for the first time to celebrate Christmas with Åsleik & his sister, Guro. On Christmas Eve, Åsleik, Asle, & the dog Bragi take Åsleik’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; & can make a living by trying to paint away all the pictures stuck in his mind. After a while, Asle & Ales leave the city & move to the house in Dylgja. The other Asle gets married too, but his wedding ends with a sobbing bride & is followed soon after by a painful breakup.
Jon Fosse was born in 1959 on the west coast of Norway & is the recipient of countless prestigious prizes, both in his native country & abroad.
Damion Searls is a translator from German, Norwegian, French, & Dutch & a writer in English. He has translated 4 books & a libretto by Jon Fosse – Melancholy (co-translated with Grethe Kvernes),...
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