The Other Name: Septology I-II - Jon Fosse

The Other Name: Septology I-II by Jon Fosse, translated by Damion Searls / ISBN 9781945492402 / 336-page paperback from Transit Books *** New York Times Editors' Choice Longlisted for the 2020 International Booker Prize “Fosse’s 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 "Fosse’s portrait of intersecting lives is that rare metaphysical novel that readers will find compulsively readable.”—Publishers Weekly, Starred Review "With Septology, Fosse has found a new approach to writing fiction, different from what he has written before and—it is strange to say, as the novel enters its fifth century—different from what has been written before. Septology feels new."—Wyatt Mason, Harper's "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