I is Another, Jon Fosse
I is Another, Jon Fosse
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I is Another
Septology III-V

Author: Jon Fosse, Damion Searls

Series: Septology

Narrator: Kyle Snyder

Unabridged: 8 hr 46 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Tantor Media

Published: 12/26/2023

Synopsis

I is Another follows the lives of two men living close to each other on the west coast of Norway. The year is coming to a close and Asle, an aging painter and widower, is reminiscing about his life. He lives alone, his only friends being his neighbor, Åsleik, a bachelor and traditional Norwegian fisherman-farmer, and Beyer, a gallerist who lives in Bjørgvin, a couple hours' drive south of Dylgja, where he lives. There, in Bjørgvin, lives another Asle, also a painter. He and the narrator are doppelgangers—two versions of the same person, two versions of the same life. I is Another calls into question concrete notions around subjectivity and the self. What makes us who we are? And why do we lead one life and not another?

About Jon Fosse

Jon Fosse is one of Norway's most celebrated authors and playwrights. 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, children's books, and over forty plays, with more than a thousand productions performed and translations into fifty languages.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Vit on October 18, 2022

I Is Another is two more days of consciousness flowing in the unremitting stream… He’s recalling his adolescence… …now he doesn’t want to paint house and home anymore, now he wants to paint just his own pictures, because his head is full of pictures, it’s a real torment, yes, pictures get lodged in hi......more

Goodreads review by Paul on September 06, 2021

I Is Another: Septology III-V picks up where Septology I-II left off* (see my review) And I see myself standing and looking at the picture with the two lines, a purple line and a brown line, that cross in the middle and I think that it’s cold in the main room, and that it’s too early to get up It is n......more

Goodreads review by Fabian on July 13, 2024

Jon Fosse's heptalogy reads as if Thomas Bernhard had written Molly's final monologue in "Ulysses". It is one long stream of consciousness that takes on a meditative character through its repetition, monotony and focus on details, developing a pull to which one gradually surrenders completely. The re......more

Goodreads review by Great-O-Khan on January 21, 2024

"Ich ist ein anderer" enthält die Teile drei bis fünf der Heptalogie des Literaturnobelpreisträgers Jon Fosse. Es beginnt am Mittwoch. Der Maler Asle wacht auf. Der mitreißende Gedankenstrom aus dem ersten Heptalogie-Band setzt sich nahtlos fort. Die Kindheitserinnerungen, die er kurz vor dem Einsch......more

Goodreads review by Enrique on February 02, 2024

Tras reciente relectura (año y medio después de la lectura original), era evidente que le iba a subir la puntuación (de 3 a 5). Puesta en contexto la historia gana, aunque el estilo envolvente e hipnótico sigue siendo el mismo. Conocemos mucho más al amigo Asle. Conocemos más los mecanismos de Fosse......more

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