New Name: Septology VI-VII

"A New Name: Septology VI-VII" is a transcendent exploration of the human condition by Jon Fosses, the "Beckett of the twenty-first century." It follows the lives of two Asles, doppelgängers grappling with existential questions, as younger adults in flashbacks. The novel is incantatory, hypnotic, and unique.

Format: Paperback / softback
Length: 232 pages
Publication date: 08 September 2021
Publisher: Fitzcarraldo Editions

Asle is an aging painter and widower who resides 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 installment of Jon Fosses 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.

Weight: 304g
Dimension: 195 x 128 x 20 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781913097721