The Other Name: Septology I-II
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…
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Weitere Autoren: Searls, Damion (Übers.)
- ISBN: 978-1-910695-92-0
- EAN: 9781910695920
- Produktnummer: 32672365
- Verlag: Fitzcarraldo Editions
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2019
- Seitenangabe: 352 S.
- Plattform: EPUB
- Masse: 238 KB
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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. The Other Name is the first volume in Septology, his latest prose work, to be published in three volumes by Fitzcarraldo Editions.
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