I is Another WINNER OF THE 2023 NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATURE: Septology III-V by Jo

Description: I is Another WINNER OF THE 2023 NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATURE by Jon Fosse, Damion Searls I is Another: Septology III-V, the second instalment in a major new work by Jon Fosse, one of Europes most celebrated writers, follows the lives of Asle and Asle – 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. FORMAT Paperback LANGUAGE English CONDITION Brand New Publisher Description Winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature 2023Asle 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 Fosses Septology, the two Asles meet for the first time. 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 is a beautiful novel about the nature of love, art, God, alcoholism, friendship, and the passage of time. Author Biography Jon Fosse was born in 1959 on the west coast of Norway and has written over thirty books and twenty-eight plays that have been translated into over 40 languages. His first novel, Red, Black, was published in 1983, and was followed by such works as Melancholia I & II, Aliss at the Fire, and Morning and Evening. He is one of the worlds most produced living playwrights. In 2007, Fosse became a chevalier of the Ordre national du Merite of France, and he was awarded the International Ibsen Award in 2010. In 2011, he moved into Grotten, an honorary residence for artists on the grounds of the Royal Palace in Oslo. He was awarded the European Prize for Literature in 2014 and the Nordic Council Literature Prize in 2015. He currently has homes in Bergen, Oslo, and in Hainburg, Austria.Damion Searls is a translator from German, Norwegian, French, and Dutch and a writer in English. He has translated many classic modern writers, including Proust, Rilke, Nietzsche, Walser, Ingeborg Bachmann, Alfred Doblin, Jon Fosse, Elfriede Jelinek, Uwe Johnson and Nescio. Review Fosses 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, GuardianThe 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 Fosses words. Its 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 OnJon Fosse is a major European writer.— Karl Ove Knausgaard, author of My Struggle Long Description 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 Fosses Septology , the two Asles meet for the first time. 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 is a beautiful novel about the nature of love, art, God, alcoholism, friendship, and the passage of time. Details ISBN1913097382 Author Damion Searls Pages 304 Publisher Fitzcarraldo Editions Year 2020 Translator Damion Searls ISBN-10 1913097382 ISBN-13 9781913097387 Publication Date 2020-10-07 UK Release Date 2020-10-07 Format Paperback Imprint Fitzcarraldo Editions Place of Publication London Country of Publication United Kingdom Translated from Norwegian Nynorsk AU Release Date 2020-10-07 Language English Subtitle Septology III-V Alternative 9781913097394 DEWEY 839.8238 Audience General NZ Release Date 2020-10-06 We've got this At The Nile, if you're looking for it, we've got it. With fast shipping, low prices, friendly service and well over a million items - you're bound to find what you want, at a price you'll love! TheNile_Item_ID:130072365;

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