The other name
Fosse, Jon, 1959-2020
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Asle is a painter and widower who lives in the house in Dylgja where he used to live with his wife Ales. He is now alone; almost the only people he still sees are his neighbour, Åsleik - an old-fashioned country fisherman - and his gallerist, Beyer, who lives in the city of Bjørgvin, Fosse's fictional version of Bergen. Another Asle, also a painter, lives in Bjørgvin, and he and the narrator are doppelgangers, in a way, or perhaps two versions of the same person, the same life. The one who married Ales also became religious, and quit drinking, and became a successful painter; the other is on a harder path. It is a central event of Fosse's fictional universe when they meet. The action of the novel takes place during Advent, shortly before Christmas, with the lives of the two Asles told both in flashback and in the present.
Main title:
The other name / Jon Fosse ; translated by Damion Searls.
Author:
Fosse, Jon, 1959-, authorSearls, Damion, translator
Imprint:
London : Fitzcarraldo Editions, 2020.
Collation:
340 pages ; 20 cm.
Series title:
Septology ; I-II.
Notes:
Translated from the Norwegian.
ISBN:
9781910695913 (pbk)
Dewey class:
839.8238
Language:
EnglishNorwegian
BRN:
2906879