Septology

"Septology" is a novel by Jon Fosses that explores the human condition through the lives of two doppelgängers, Asle and Asle, who grapple with existential questions about death, love, light, shadow, faith, and hopelessness. It is a transcendent and unique reading experience.

Format: Paperback / softback
Length: 825 pages
Publication date: 02 November 2022
Publisher: Fitzcarraldo Editions

What makes us who we are? And why do we lead one life and not another? Asle, an aging painter and widower who lives alone on the southwest coast of Norway, is reminiscing about his life. His only friends are his neighbor, Åsleik, a traditional fisherman-farmer, and Beyer, a gallerist who lives in the city. There, in Bjørgvin, lives another Asle, also a painter but lonely and consumed by alcohol. Asle and Asle are doppelgängers – 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 Fosses' Septology is a transcendent exploration of the human condition, and a radically other reading experience – incantatory, hypnotic, and utterly unique.

Weight: 578g
Dimension: 115 x 197 x 58 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781804270066