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Asle is an ageing painter and widower who lives alone on the
southwest coast of Norway. His only friends are his neighbour,
Asleik, a traditional fisherman-farmer, and Beyer, a gallerist who
lives in the city. There, in Bjorgvin, lives another Asle, also a
painter but lonely and consumed by alcohol. Asle and Asle are
doppelgangers - two versions of the same person, two versions of
the same life, both grappling with existential questions. In this
second instalment of Jon Fosse’s Septology, ‘a major work of
Scandinavian fiction’ (Hari Kunzru), the two Asles meet for the
first time in their youth. They look strangely alike, dress
identically, and both want to be painters. At art school in
Bjorgvin, Asle meets and falls in love with his future wife, Ales.
Written in ‘melodious and hypnotic slow prose’, I is Another:
Septology III-V is an exquisite metaphysical novel about love, art,
God, friendship, and the passage of time.
What makes us who we are? And why do we lead one life and not
another? The year is coming to a close and Asle, an ageing painter
and widower who lives alone on the southwest coast of Norway, is
reminiscing about his life. His only friends are his neighbour,
Asleik, a traditional fisherman-farmer, and Beyer, a gallerist who
lives in the city. There, in Bjorgvin, lives another Asle, also a
painter but lonely and consumed by alcohol. Asle and Asle are
doppelgangers - two versions of the same person, two versions of
the same life, both grappling with existential questions about
life, death, love, light and shadow, faith and hopelessness.
Written in melodious and hypnotic 'slow prose', The Other Name:
Septology I-II is an indelible and poignant exploration of the
human condition by Jon Fosse, 'a major European writer' (Karl Ove
Knausgaard), in which everything is always there, and past and
present flow together.
Asle is an ageing painter and widower who lives alone on the
southwest coast of Norway. In nearby Bjørgvin another Asle, also a
painter, is lying in the hospital, consumed by alcoholism. Asle and
Asle are doppelgängers – two versions of the same person, two
versions of the same life, both grappling with existential
questions. In this final instalment of Jon Fosse’s Septology, the
major prose work by ‘the Beckett of the twenty-first century’
(Le Monde), we follow the lives of the two Asles as younger adults
in flashbacks: the narrator meets his lifelong love, Ales; joins
the Catholic Church; and makes a living by trying to paint away all
the pictures stuck in his mind. A New Name: Septology VI-VII is a
transcendent exploration of the human condition, and a radically
other reading experience – incantatory, hypnotic, and utterly
unique.
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A Shining
Jon Fosse; Translated by Damion Searls
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R443
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Septology (Paperback)
Jon Fosse; Translated by Damion Searls
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R451
Discovery Miles 4 510
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What makes us who we are? And why do we lead one life and not
another? Asle, an ageing painter and widower who lives alone on the
southwest coast of Norway, is reminiscing about his life. His only
friends are his neighbour, Asleik, a traditional fisherman-farmer,
and Beyer, a gallerist who lives in the city. There, in Bjorgvin,
lives another Asle, also a painter but lonely and consumed by
alcohol. Asle and Asle are doppelgangers - two versions of the same
person, two versions of the same life, both grappling with
existential questions about death, love, light and shadow, faith
and hopelessness. Jon Fosse's Septology is a transcendent
exploration of the human condition, and a radically other reading
experience - incantatory, hypnotic, and utterly unique.
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Septology
Jon Fosse; Translated by Damion Searls
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R694
R589
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Trilogy (Paperback)
Jon Fosse; Translated by May-Brit Akerholt
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R453
R370
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Trilogy is Jon Fosse's critically acclaimed, luminous love story
about Asle and Alida, two lovers trying to find their place in this
world. Homeless and sleepless, they wander around Bergen in the
rain, trying to make a life for themselves and the child they
expect. Through a rich web of historical, cultural, and theological
allusions, Fosse constructs a modern parable of injustice,
resistance, crime, and redemption. Consisting of three novellas
(Wakefulness, Olav's Dreams, and Weariness), Trilogy is a haunting,
mysterious, and poignant evocation of love, for which Fosse
received The Nordic Council's Prize for Literature in 2015.
Scenes from a Childhood is the latest collection of stories by Jon
Fosse, one of Norway's most celebrated authors and playwrights,
famed for the minimalist and unsettling quality of his writing. In
the title work, a loosely autobiographical narrative covers infancy
to awkward adolescence, unearthing the moments of childhood that
linger longest in the imagination. In 'And Then My Dog Will Come
Back To Me', a haunting and dream-like novella, a dispute between
neighbours escalates to an inexorable climax. Taken from various
sources, the texts gathered here together for the first time
demonstrate that the short story is one of the recurrent modes of
Fosse's imagination, and occasions some of his greatest works.
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The Dead Dogs (Paperback)
Jon Fosse; Translated by May-Brit Akerholt
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R383
Discovery Miles 3 830
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A young man lives alone with his mother and his beloved dog in a
house in a small village overlooking the fjord. The dog has run off
and gone missing. This has never happened before... In The Dead
Dogs, lives are shockingly disrupted by an event that changes the
direction of their future. Fosse's drama explores life lived in
unexpected ways, with a sense of otherness pervading the present
and colouring the characters' relationships.
The wind gathers, rising up suddenly. Two men on a fragile boat, a
trip to sea - a few drinks, a bite to eat - when one of them
decides to push on to the open ocean. Suddenly there they are:
among the distant islands, the threatening fog and gathering swell
of the sea, bound together on an odyssey into the unknown. Jon
Fosse's work includes novels, poetry, essays and books for
children. He is one of the most produced playwrights in Europe and
his plays have been translated into forty languages. Oberon Books
publishes Nightsongs and The Girl on the Sofa, and his other plays
in the following collections: Plays One, Plays Two, Plays Three,
Plays Four and Plays Five. Plays Six is forthcoming in 2012. Oberon
Books also publishes The Luminous Darkness: The Theatre of Jon
Fosse by Leif Zern (translated by Ann Henning-Jocelyn).
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Aliss at the Fire (Paperback)
Jon Fosse; Translated by Damion Searls
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R380
R304
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In her old house by the fjord, Signe lies on a bench and sees a
vision of herself as she was more than twenty years earlier:
standing by the window waiting for her husband Asle, on that
terrible late November day when he took his rowboat out onto the
water and never returned. Her memories widen out to include their
whole life together, and beyond: the bonds of family and the
battles with implacable nature stretching back over five
generations, to Asle's great-great-grandmother Aliss. In Jon
Fosse's vivid, hallucinatory prose, all these moments in time
inhabit the same space, and the ghosts of the past collide with
those who still live on. "Aliss at the Fire" is a visionary
masterpiece, a haunting exploration of love and loss that ranks
among the greatest meditations on marriage and human fate.
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Boathouse (Paperback)
Jon Fosse; Translated by May-Brit Akerholt
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R397
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One of Jon Fosse’s most acclaimed novels, Boathouse is told from
the perspective of an unnamed narrator leading a largely
hermit-like existence until he unexpectedly encounters a long-lost
childhood friend and his wife. Told partially in a
stream-of-consciousness style and with an atmosphere reminiscent of
a gripping crime novel, Boathouse slowly unravels the story of a
love triangle leading to jealousy, betrayal, and eventually death.
A girl sits on a sofa, not knowing what to do with herself. She
argues with her mother and envies her older sister. She also longs
for her absent father, a seaman. A middle-aged woman paints a
portrait of herself as a young girl, sitting on a sofa, but she's
beginning to doubt her artistic ability. Still at odds with her
sister and her mother and haunted by her dead father, she's unable
to shake the continuing presence of the past in her life -
"Includes the plays Someone is Going to Come, The Guitar Man, The
Name and The Child In Someone is Going to Come the two of them want
to be together, just the two of them, so they leave the city and
buy a remote house by the sea. But is it possible to do what they
want to do? Won't somebody come? Surely someone will come. The
Guitar Man is a poignant monologue in which a busker sings songs to
an audience that is always on the move, always passing him by. The
Name (winner of the Ibsen Prize in Norway) tells the story of an
estranged family forced to live under one roof. When a pregnant
girl and the father of the child have nowhere to live, they move
into her parents' house. But the parents have never met the
father-to-be, and don't yet know about the pregnancy. In The Child
a man and a woman find each other in a bus stop on a rainy night.
They hold each other close. They rent an old house out of town. The
woman becomes pregnant. But the child is too small to survive. In
these four varied plays Jon Fosse's unique linguistic style, at
once poetic and naturalistic, magnifies the love and pain of
ordinary people seeking to live their lives."
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