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The Other Name: Septology III (Septology, 1),Used
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WINNER OF THE 2023 NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATURENew York Times Editors' ChoiceLonglisted for the 2020 International Booker PrizeSeptology named one of the 100 Best Books of the 21st Century by The New York TimesFosses 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'Fosses portrait of intersecting lives is that rare metaphysical novel that readers will find compulsively readable.Publishers Weekly, Starred ReviewThe 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, sleik, a bachelor and traditional Norwegian fishermanfarmer, and Beyer, a gallerist who lives in Bjrgvin, a couple hours drive south of Dylgja, where he lives. There, in Bjrgvin, lives another Asle, also a painter. He and the narrator are doppelgangerstwo versions of the same person, two versions of the same life.Written in hypnotic prose that shifts between the first and third person, The Other Name calls into question concrete notions around subjectivity and the self. What makes us who we are? And why do we lead one life and not another? Through flashbacks, Fosse deftly explores the convergences and divergences in the lives of both Asles, slowly building towards a decisive encounter between them both. A writer at the zenith of his career, with The Other Name, the first two volumes in his Septology, Fosse presents us with an indelible and poignant exploration of the human condition that will endure as his masterpiece.
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