I Is Another: Septology III-V by Jon Fosse (English) Paperback Book

Description: I Is Another by Jon Fosse, Damion Searls The lives of an aging painter and his doppelganger converge and diverge in an elegiac meditation on our unlived lives, in the second book of the celebrated Norwegian writers three-volumeSeptology. FORMAT Paperback LANGUAGE English CONDITION Brand New Publisher Description The lives of an aging painter and his doppelganger converge and diverge in an elegiac meditation on our unlived lives, in the second book of the celebrated Norwegian writers three-volumeSeptology. Author Biography Jon Fosse is one of Norways most celebrated authors and playwrights, and was awarded the 2023 Nobel Prize in Literature. He was born in 1959 on the west coast of Norway and is the recipient of countless prestigious prizes, both in his native Norway and abroad. Since his 1983 fiction debut, Raudt, svart [Red, Black], Fosse has written prose, poetry, essays, short stories, childrens books, and over forty plays, with more than a thousand productions performed and translations into fifty languages. Review "I hesitate to compare the experience of reading these works to the act of meditation. But that is the closest I can come to describing how something in the critical self is shed in the process of reading Fosse, only to be replaced by something more primal. A mood. An atmosphere. The sound of words moving on a page." -Ruth Margalit, The New York Review of Books "This Norwegian masterpiece, by the winner of the 2023 Nobel Prize in Literature, is the kind of soul-cleansing work that seems to silence the cacophony of the modern world--a pair of noise-cancelling headphones in book form."--The New York Times"The first two installments of Fosses wondrous septology sustain a riveting stream of consciousness in a single rhythmic sentence... Fosses portrait of intersecting lives is that rare metaphysical novel that readers will find compulsively readable."--Publishers Weekly, Starred Review"Fosse is often mentioned as a leading contender for the Nobel Prize in literature. The present book has a fittingly Joycean sweep . . . that establishes him as a contender."--Kirkus Reviews, Starred 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."--The GuardianPraise for Jon Fosse: "The Beckett of the twenty-first century."--Le Monde"Jon Fosse is less well-known in America than some other Norwegian novelists, but revered in Norway--winner of every prize, a leading Nobel contender. I think of the four elder statesmen of Norwegian letters as a bit like the Beatles: Per Petterson is the solid, always dependable Ringo; Dag Solstad is John, the experimentalist, the ideas man; Karl Ove Knausgaard is Paul, the cute one; and Fosse is George, the quiet one, mystical, spiritual, probably the best craftsman of them all . . . His writing is pure poetry."--The Paris Review, from an essay by the translator"Fosse has been compared to Ibsen and to Beckett, and it is easy to see his work as Ibsen stripped down to its emotional essentials. But it is much more. For one thing, it has a fierce poetic simplicity."--The New York Times"With its heavy silences and splintered dialogue, his work has reminded some of Beckett, others of Pinter."--The Guardian"Fosses prose . . . builds out of an ambiguity and sparseness and moves with a slow poetic intensity . . . The collection has all the hallmarks of Fosses signature brooding manner where lyrical precision is used to paint unmoored psyches. An accumulation of moments when our essential emotions come into conflict with experience, Scenes from a Childhood is a welcome--if overdue--introduction to a singular literary voice."--Tank"Fosse writes about the complexity and danger of the bleak Norwegian countryside as well as he writes about the passage of time through a life. In choosing to mostly focus on pieces about childhood, Searls has been able to show an impressive side to Fosse, because--in my experience at least--writing engaging prose about childhood trips up many otherwise competent writers . . . Fosse understands that a childs mind is not merely the mind of an ignorant adult, it is a different form of consciousness entirely: more curious, more optimistic, less scared . . . There are portraits of great happiness, great pleasure and great joy in Scenes From A Childhood."--Berfrois"Fosses vignettes beautifully reclaim the Review Quote "The first two installments of Fosses wondrous septology sustain a riveting stream of consciousness in a single rhythmic sentence... Fosses portrait of intersecting lives is that rare metaphysical novel that readers will find compulsively readable."-- Publishers Weekly, Starred Review "Fosse is often mentioned as a leading contender for the Nobel Prize in literature. The present book has a fittingly Joycean sweep . . . that establishes him as a contender."-- Kirkus Reviews, Starred 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."-- The Guardian Praise for Jon Fosse "The Beckett of the twenty-first century."-- Le Monde "Jon Fosse is less well-known in America than some other Norwegian novelists, but revered in Norway--winner of every prize, a leading Nobel contender. I think of the four elder statesmen of Norwegian letters as a bit like the Beatles: Per Petterson is the solid, always dependable Ringo; Dag Solstad is John, the experimentalist, the ideas man; Karl Ove Knausgaard is Paul, the cute one; and Fosse is George, the quiet one, mystical, spiritual, probably the best craftsman of them all . . . His writing is pure poetry."-- The Paris Review , from an essay by the translator "Fosse has been compared to Ibsen and to Beckett, and it is easy to see his work as Ibsen stripped down to its emotional essentials. But it is much more. For one thing, it has a fierce poetic simplicity."-- The New York Times "With its heavy silences and splintered dialogue, his work has reminded some of Beckett, others of Pinter."-- The Guardian "Fosses prose . . . builds out of an ambiguity and sparseness and moves with a slow poetic intensity . . . The collection has all the hallmarks of Fosses signature brooding manner where lyrical precision is used to paint unmoored psyches. An accumulation of moments when our essential emotions come into conflict with experience, Scenes from a Childhood is a welcome--if overdue--introduction to a singular literary voice."-- Tank "Fosse writes about the complexity and danger of the bleak Norwegian countryside as well as he writes about the passage of time through a life. In choosing to mostly focus on pieces about childhood, Searls has been able to show an impressive side to Fosse, because--in my experience at least--writing engaging prose about childhood trips up many otherwise competent writers . . . Fosse understands that a childs mind is not merely the mind of an ignorant adult, it is a different form of consciousness entirely: more curious, more optimistic, less scared . . . There are portraits of great happiness, great pleasure and great joy in Scenes From A Childhood ."-- Berfrois "Fosses vignettes beautifully reclaim the revelations and deceptions of growing up, the punishments both arbitrary and well-earned, the lust for freedom expressed through the smallest transgressions and pettiest rebellions, the incompetence, the cluelessness, the joy and the pain, all of it twice-distilled in its clarity and intensity."-- Asymptote "Fosses style--straightforward, unembellished, but ranging from the concisely spelled out to the more rambling stream-of-(troubled-)consciousness--is crisp and beautifully polished.-- Complete Review "Undoubtedly one of the worlds most important and versatile literary voices."-- Irish Examiner "He has a surgeons ability to use the scalpel and to cut into the most prosaic, everyday happenings, to tear loose fragments from life, to place them under the microscope and examine them minutely, in order to present them afterward . . . sometimes so endlessly desolate, dark, and fearful that Kafka himself would have been frightened."-- Aftenposten Description for Sales People Jon Fosse is one of Norways most celebrated authors and playwrights, with more than a thousand productions performed and translations into fifty languages. His work has been likened to that of Samuel Beckett or Harold Pinter. Septology is considered his masterpiece, which we will release in three volumes in 2020, 2021, 2022, in conjunction with Fitzcarraldo in the UK. Details ISBN1945492457 Author Damion Searls Short Title I Is Another Pages 330 Publisher Transit Books Series Septology Language English Year 2021 ISBN-10 1945492457 ISBN-13 9781945492457 Format Paperback Subtitle Septology III-V Imprint Transit Books Translator Damion Searls DEWEY 839.8238 Series Number 2 Audience General Publication Date 2021-03-17 Country of Publication United States US Release Date 2021-03-17 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:131456864;

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