Septology

What makes us who we are? And why do we lead one life and not another? 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, 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 doppelgaengers - two versions of the same person, two versions of the same life, both grappling with existential questions about death, love, light and shadow, faith and hopelessness. Jon Fosse's Septology is a transcendent exploration of the human condition, and a radically other reading experience - incantatory, hypnotic, and utterly unique.

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"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." (Hari Kunzru, author of White Tears)

Product details

• Authors: Jon Fosse, Damion Searls
• Assisted by: Damion Searls (Translation)
• Publisher: Fitzcarraldo Editions
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 02.11.2022
• EAN: 9781804270066
• ISBN: 978-1-80427-006-6
• Dimensions: 112 mm x 195 mm x 35 mm
• Series: Septology; Heptalogie / Septology
• Subject: Fiction > Narrative literature