"What makes us who we are? And why do we lead one life and not another? Asle, an ageing painter and widower who lives alone on the southwest coast of Norway, is reminiscing about his life. His only friends are his neighbour, 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…mehr
"What makes us who we are? And why do we lead one life and not another? Asle, an ageing painter and widower who lives alone on the southwest coast of Norway, is reminiscing about his life. His only friends are his neighbour, 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 Asleree volumes of Jon Fosse's Septology?The Other Name, I is Another, and A New Name?collected in for the first time in this limited hardcover edition, are a transcendent exploration of the human condition, and a radically other reading experience?incantatory, hypnotic, and utterly unique"--Publisher's description.Hinweis: Dieser Artikel kann nur an eine deutsche Lieferadresse ausgeliefert werden.
Jon Fosse, nacido en Haugesund (Noruega) el 29 de septiembre de 1959, está considerado uno de los autores más importantes de nuestro tiempo. Ha recibido incontables premios internacionales y noruegos. Galardonado con el Premio Nobel de Literatura 2023, es algo más que un autor de éxito, sus obras son difíciles de catalogar, la experiencia de su lectura es única. Posiblemente sea el autor actual de teatro más representado en el mundo. Al otorgarle el Nobel, la Academia Sueca lo comparó con Samuel Beckett, Franz Kafka, Georg Trakl y Thomas Bernhard. Al otorgarle el Nobel, la Academia Sueca lo comparó con Samuel Beckett, Franz Kafka, Georg Trakl y Thomas Bernhard. Jon Fosse 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, children's books, and over forty plays, with more than a thousand productions performed and translations into fifty languages.