The Other Name Septology I-II

Jon Fosse, Damion Searls

eBook - 2020

WINNER OF THE 2023 NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATURE Longlisted for the 2020 International Booker Prize "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."—The Guardian The Other Name follows the lives of two men living close to each other on the west coast of Norway. The year is coming to a close and Asle, an aging painter and widower, is reminiscing about his life. He lives alone, his only friends being his neighbor, Åsleik, a bachelor and traditional Norwegian fisherman-farmer, and Beyer, a gallerist who lives in Bjørgvin, a couple hours' drive south of Dylgja, where he lives. There, in Bjørgvi...n, lives another Asle, also a painter. He and the narrator are doppelgangers—two versions of the same person, two versions of the same... more