Septology
三部作からなる連作長篇で、画家アスレの記憶、信仰、孤独、喪失が、ほとんど途切れない語りのなかでゆっくりと重なり合っていく。反復と沈黙を生かした文体が、存在と救済をめぐる内的な逡巡を深く掘り下げる。
作品情報
長く流れる文が、記憶と祈りをひとつの体験にまとめ上げる。
アスレともう一人のアスレが、海辺の町と信仰の記憶のなかでゆっくりと呼応していく。七部作として広がる世界は、日常の些細な所作を通して、人生の重さと静かな神秘を際立たせる。
書籍情報
- 出版社
- Fitzcarraldo Editions
- 発売日
- 2022-11-02
- ページ数
- 825ページ
- 言語
- 英語
- サイズ
- 19.7 x 3.7 x 11.2 cm
- ISBN-13
- 9781804270066
- ISBN-10
- 1804270067
- 価格
- 3992 JPY
- カテゴリ
- 洋書/Mystery & Thrillers/Thrillers/Psychological & Suspense
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. Septology is a transcendent exploration of the human condition by Jon Fosse, the 2023 Nobel Prize in Literature laureate, and a radically other reading experience – incantatory, hypnotic and utterly unique.
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. In 2023, he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature ‘for his innovative plays and prose which give voice to the unsayable’. Damion Searls is a translator from German, Norwegian, French and Dutch, and a writer in English. He has translated nine books by Jon Fosse, including the three books of Septology .
レビュー
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What a stunning, unique novel. Reading these stream-of-consciousness volumes felt like entering a dream-world for two weeks - divine, white, devastating, hypnotic. Jon Fosse has created something remarkle, dare I say it: transcendent. His writing goes “beyond,” taking the readers to a place without words or borders, outside of time; somehow within the everyday and startlingly beyond it. I felt this book in my bones and will carry the feeling that reading it gave me for a long time.
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Un libro para todo el mundo
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Produkt zgodny z opisem
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great book
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A great book
関連する文学賞
- ノーベル文学賞 第116回（2023年） ・Winner