I Is Another: Septology III-V

by Jon Fosse, Damion Searls (Translator)

Overview

The lives of an aging painter and his doppelganger converge and diverge in an elegiac meditation on our unlived lives, in the second book of the celebrated Norwegian writer’s three-volumeSeptology.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781945492495
Publisher:	Transit Books
Publication date:	03/02/2021
Series:	Septology , #2
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Sales rank:	1,022,560
File size:	2 MB

About the Author

Jon Fosse was born in 1959 on the west coast of Norway. Since his 1983 fiction debut, Raudt, svart [Red, Black], Fosse has written prose, poetry, essays, short stories, children’s books and over forty plays. In 2023, he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature ‘for his innovative plays and prose which give voice to the unsayable’. I is Another is the second volume in Septology.

Damion Searls is a translator from German, Norwegian, French and Dutch, and a writer in English. He has translated nine books by Jon Fosse, including the three books of Septology.

Editorial Reviews

‘Fosse’s 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.’
— Catherine Taylor, Guardian

‘The reader of I is Another is both on the riverbank and in the water being carried forward, and around, by the great, shaping, and completely engrossing, flow of Fosse’s words. It’s a doubleness of view that is reflected in the characters, named Asle, who are both one and other, and through which we can see and feel the world, and ourselves, more clearly.’
— David Hayden, author of Darker with the Lights On

‘Jon Fosse is a major European writer.’
— Karl Ove Knausgaard, author of My Struggle

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