A New Name by Jon Fosse

A New Name by Jon Fosse

Written in melodious and hypnotic slow prose, A New Name: Septology VI-VII is a transcendent exploration of the human condition by Jon Fosse, and a radically other reading experience incantatory, hypnotic, and utterly unique.

‘Fosse’s portrait of memory remarkably refusesIt will not be other than: indelible as paint, trivial as nail clippings, wound like damp string. This book reaches out of its frame like a hand.’ 
— Jesse Ball, author of Census

‘Jon Fosse is a major European writer.’
— Karl Ove Knausgaard, author of My Struggle

‘Fosse intuitively — and with great artistry — conveys ... a sense of wonder at the unfathomable miracle of life, even in its bleakest and loneliest moments. In this fine conclusion to Septology, the religious subtexts of the project’s companion pieces at last draw into focus. The link between Asle’s art and his faith finds subtle expression in the parallels between the haunting oil painting of two crossed lines, which the narrator contemplates at the beginning of each section, and the cross made with anointing oil as he is accepted into the Catholic faith.... As the final pages draw to their profound and breath-snatching close, Septology also attains that original ambition: it imbues the very enigma of life, which can seem at times so terrifyingly dark, with a light that is almost beatific.’ 
— Bryan Karetnyk, Financial Times

‘The entire septet seems to take place in a state of limbo...Though Fosse has largely done away with punctuation altogether, opting instead for sudden line breaks, his dense, sinuous prose is never convoluted, and its effect is mesmerizing.’
— Johanna Elster Hanson, TLS

Jon Fosse was born in 1959 on the west coast of Norway. Since his 1983 fiction debut, Raudt, svart [Red, Black], Fosse has written prose, poetry, essays, short stories, children’s books and over forty plays. In 2023, he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature ‘for his innovative plays and prose which give voice to the unsayable’. A New Name is the final volume in Septology. 

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ISBN 13	9781913097721
ISBN 10	1913097722
Titre	A New Name
Auteur	Jon Fosse
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Type de reliure	Paperback
Éditeur	Fitzcarraldo Editions
Année de publication	2021-09-08
Nombre de pages	232
Prix	Winner of Nobel Prize in Literature 2023 (Sweden), Short-listed for International Booker Prize 2022 (UK), Long-listed for The Brage Prize 2021 (Norway), Long-listed for Longlisted for the 2022 Oxford-Weidenfeld Prize 2022 (UK)
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