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A New Name: Septology VI-VII

By Jon Fosse & Damion Searls
A New Name: Septology VI-VII by Jon Fosse & Damion Searls digital book - Fable

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8 Reviews

4.5
“A New Name starts with Asle standing in front of the painting with the two lines (representing both Asles??) and trying to decide if it's a good painting or a bad one. The story in this part heavily focuses on his relationship with Ales, his dead wife, how they first met and the evolution of their relationship. It's a very moving exploration of grief and loss. The language remains impeccable and there is a lot more mirroring/parallels in people, life events, almost a circle of life with the past and present sort of bleeding into each other even more than in the previous parts. Again for a book dealing with excruciating details of mundane events and conversations, it's really gripping and something I couldn't put down. The Septology as a whole is an experience and journey that I feel honoured to be able to witness. It's really something else. Definitely a contender for my favourite work of all time.”
“I don't remember being so captivated by a book before. The prose is almost meditative and naturally feels so easy to read I never wanted to put it down. Ignoring convention, I didn't read parts I-V first but definitely will now and check out Fosse's other works too.”
“An intense grappling with the divinity of God and His power through His powerlessness via the allowance of free will. Fosse braids together a study of what it means to suffer and live both with and without God using parallel characters (doppelgängers, perhaps?). Two realities intertwine to create paradoxical world that begins weaving time itself together? All of my thoughts will never be complete with this one. A trilogy spanning 667 pages that is one sentence. I’ve never read such a rhythmic book that mimics being motionless on a sea (I thought of this in book one, and Fosse kind of hammers it home in the second and especially the third). It is incantatory and creates its form through its formlessness? I don’t know, and I don’t think I’ll ever know; just like Asle, the main character, stresses that to know God is to never fully understand Him, that there’s a divinity and holiness in the mysticism shrouding our Creator”

About Jon Fosse

Jon Fosse is one of Norway’s most celebrated authors and playwrights. He 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.

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