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The Other Name

By Jon Fosse & Damion Searls
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Publisher Description

The lives of an aging painter and his doppelganger converge and diverge in an elegiac meditation on our unlived lives, in the first volume of the celebrated Norwegian writer’s Septology.

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“Lyrical, hypnotic, extremely compelling writing. It really pulled me in and I was devouring the pages. The best way I can describe the prose is it's syrupy, like it's viscous, sticky. It dwells on mudane thoughts and conversations and often takes tangents into memories and fragments. I feel it's too early to form concrete opinions on Septology yet, but the first part written in stream-of-consciousness writing detailing the minute intricate thoughts and lives of Asle, the artist we follow and Asle, his doppelganger with a similar life, plays on the themes of human agency, what leads to a certain kind of life, the blurred contours of us/other(since we follow one Asle from a first person pov but also have insights into the other Asle's thoughts and memories, I wonder if this is an exploration of the boundaries of self), meaning of art, what we owe each other, loss, grief, contemplation on God and religion. There's a lot of mirroring and coincidences and repetition used throughout the writing and I'm excited to see where this takes me. This is something magical.”
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Monica B

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Multi-layered charactersBeautifully writtenDescriptive writingOriginal writingDarkThought-provoking
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“An unclassifiable masterpiece from a Nobel Prize winning novelist. One of the quietest novels I’ve ever read, focused on the intertwined lives of two old men. The book captures perfectly the restless rhythm of thoughts, a bit difficult to read but rewards the reader with profound revelations about art and spirituality hidden among the thoughts.”

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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