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3 - I is Another: Septology III-V
Jon Fosse - Transit Books
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I is Another 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... |
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4 - A New Name: Septology VI-VII
JON FOSSE - Transit Books
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Longlisted for the 2022 International Booker Prize"With Septology, Fosse has found a new approach to writing fiction, different from what he has written before and - it is strange to say, as the novel enters its fifth century - different from what has been written before. Septology... |
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6 - Morning and Evening
Jon Fosse - Dalkey Archive Press
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A child who will be named Johannes is born. An old man named Johannes dies. Between these two points, Jon Fosse gives us the details of an entire life, starkly compressed. Beginning with Johannes's father's thoughts as his wife goes into labor, and ending with Johannes's own thoughts... |
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7 - Melancholy II: A Novel
Jon Fosse - Dalkey Archive Press
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Not so much a sequel as an alternate perspective, Jon Fosse's coda to his brilliant and much-lauded Melancholy picks up the story of tormented landscape painter Lars Hertervig in 1902, shortly after his death. Taking place, like Melancholy, over the course of a single day, it treats... |
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