Winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature for 2023

WINNER OF THE 2023 NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATURE

2022 International Booker Prize, Finalist
2022 National Book Award, Finalist
2022 National Book Critics Circle Award, Finalist
New York Times Editors' Choice
Named a Best Book of the Year by The New Yorker and Bookforum

Selected as one of the 100 Best Books of the 21st Century by The New York Times

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 Bj rgvin, 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. The three 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.

WINNER OF THE 2023 NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATURE

A man starts driving without knowing where he is going. He alternates between turning right and left, and ultimately finds himself stuck at the end of a forest road. It soon grows dark and begins to snow. But instead of searching for help, he ventures, foolishly, into the dark forest. Inevitably, the man gets lost, and as he grows cold and tired, he encounters a glowing being amid the obscurity. Strange, haunting and dreamlike, A Shining is the latest work of fiction by National Book Award-finalist Jon Fosse, the Beckett of the twenty-first century (Le Monde).

Winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature for 2023

Trilogy is Jon Fosse's critically acclaimed, luminous love story about Asle and Alida, two lovers trying to find their place in this world. Homeless and sleepless, they wander around Bergen in the rain, trying to make a life for themselves and the child they expect. Through a rich web of historical, cultural, and theological allusions, Fosse constructs a modern parable of injustice, resistance, crime, and redemption. Consisting of three novellas (Wakefulness, Olav's Dreams, and Weariness), Trilogy is a haunting, mysterious, and poignant evocation of love, for which Fosse received The Nordic Council's Prize for Literature in 2015.

From the 2023 winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature, a haunting masterpiece exploring love, loss, and human fate.

In her old house by the fjord, Signe lies on a bench and sees a vision of herself as she was more than twenty years earlier: standing by the window waiting for her husband Asle, on that terrible late November day when he took his rowboat out onto the water and never returned. Her memories widen out to include their whole life together, and beyond: the bonds of family and the battles with implacable nature stretching back over five generations, to Asle's great-great-grandmother Aliss. In Jon Fosse's vivid, hallucinatory prose, all these moments in time inhabit the same space, and the ghosts of the past collide with those who still live on.

WINNER OF THE 2023 NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATURE

New York Times Editors' Choice
Longlisted for the 2020 International Booker Prize

Septology named one of the 100 Best Books of the 21st Century by The New York Times

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

The Other Name 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 Bj rgvin, a couple hours' drive south of Dylgja, where he lives. There, in Bj rgvin, lives another Asle, also a painter. He and the narrator are doppelgangers--two versions of the same person, two versions of the same life.

Written in hypnotic prose that shifts between the first and third person, The Other Name 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? Through flashbacks, Fosse deftly explores the convergences and divergences in the lives of both Asles, slowly building towards a decisive encounter between them both. A writer at the zenith of his career, with The Other Name, the first two volumes in his Septology, Fosse presents us with an indelible and poignant exploration of the human condition that will endure as his masterpiece.

Winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature for 2023

One of Jon Fosse's most acclaimed novels, Boathouse features an unnamed narrator who leads a hermit-like existence until he unexpectedly encounters a long-lost childhood friend and his wife. Part stream-of-consciousness metafictive exercise, part gripping crime novel, Boathouse slowly unravels the story of a love triangle to reveal a tale of jealousy and betrayal.

WINNER OF THE 2023 NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATURE
New York Times Editors' Choice
Longlisted for the 2020 International Booker Prize
2022 International Booker Prize, Finalist
2022 National Book Award, Finalist
2022 National Book Critics Circle Award, Finalist
New York Times Editors' Choice
Septology named one of the 100 Best Books of the 21st Century by The New York Times

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

The Other Name 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 Bj rgvin, a couple hours' drive south of Dylgja, where he lives. There, in Bj rgvin, lives another Asle, also a painter. He and the narrator are doppelgangers--two versions of the same person, two versions of the same life.

Written in hypnotic prose that shifts between the first and third person, The Other Name 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? Through flashbacks, Fosse deftly explores the convergences and divergences in the lives of both Asles, slowly building towards a decisive encounter between them both. A writer at the zenith of his career, with The Other Name, the first two volumes in his Septology, Fosse presents us with an indelible and poignant exploration of the human condition that will endure as his masterpiece.

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, HARPERS

Asle is an aging painter and widower who lives alone on the west coast of Norway. His only friends are his neighbor, Åsleik, a traditional fisherman-farmer, and Beyer, a gallerist who lives in the city. There, in Bj rgvin, 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. Written in melodious and hypnotic slow prose, A New Name is the final installment of Jon Fosse's Septology, a major work of Scandinavian fiction (Hari Kunzru) and an exquisite metaphysical novel about love, art, God, friendship, and the passage of time.

WINNER OF THE 2023 NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATURE

2022 International Booker Prize, Finalist
2022 National Book Award, Finalist
2022 National Book Critics Circle Award, Finalist
New York Times Editors' Choice
Named a Best Book of the Year by The New Yorker and Bookforum

Selected as one of the 100 Best Books of the 21st Century by The New York Times

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 Bj rgvin, 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. The three 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.

WINNER OF THE 2023 NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATURE

A New York Times Editors' Choice

Septology named one of the 100 Best Books of the 21st Century by The New York Times

Fosse's portrait of intersecting lives is that rare metaphysical novel that readers will find compulsively readable.--Publishers Weekly, Starred Review

Jon Fosse said farewell to theory early in his career, choosing poetry, fiction, and drama as his mediums of choice. Here, however, in a selection from his two books of essays, we see just how incisive a critic and memoirist he can be. Not only including a generous portion of Fosse's writing on literature and theater--including the irresistable Thomas Bernhard and His Grandfather--this collection also includes such personal essays such as My Dear New Norwegian, Old Houses, and He Who Didn't Want to Become a Teacher.

By Nobel Laureate in Literature Jon Fosse, Vaim begins a trilogy of novels set in a remote Norwegian fishing village.

Jatgeir has come from the small fishing village of Vaim to the big city on his boat, which he calls Eline. He wants to buy a needle and thread to mend a loose button. Instead, he finds Eline herself--the secret love of his youth, who has recently left her husband--who returns with him to the village. Fosse's first work since receiving the Nobel Prize in Literature, Vaim comes to life through hypnotic prose and mordant wit, unfolding a world of boats, solitary fishermen, love, and death.

En la prosa vívida y alucinatoria de Jon Fosse, todos esos momentos habitan el mismo espacio, y los fantasmas del pasado colisionan con los vivos. Ales junto a la hoguera es una visionaria obra maestra, una inquietante exploración del amor y de la pérdida que se encuentra entre las más bellas meditaciones sobre el matrimonio y el destino humano.

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From the 2023 winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature, a haunting masterpiece exploring love, loss, and human fate.

In her old house by the fjord, Signe lies on a bench and sees a vision of herself as she was more than twenty years earlier: standing by the window waiting for her husband Asle, on that terrible late November day when he took his rowboat out onto the water and never returned. Her memories widen out to include their whole life together, and beyond: the bonds of family and the battles with implacable nature stretching back over five generations, to Asle's great-great-grandmother Aliss. In Jon Fosse's vivid, hallucinatory prose, all these moments in time inhabit the same space, and the ghosts of the past collide with those who still live on.

Aliss at the Fire is a visionary masterpiece, a haunting exploration of love and loss that ranks among the greatest meditations on marriage and human fate.

La novela más reciente del Premio Nobel de Literatura 2023. Una magnífica e intensa pieza literaria de cadencia hipnótica.

«La obra de Fosse es un enigma que da vida y esperanza a quien la lee. Ilumina el alma humana como solo lo hacen los elegidos . -Manuel Vilas

Un hombre conduce sin un rumbo en mente, hasta que su coche queda atascado al final de una pista forestal. Es una tarde de finales de otoño, ya casi no hay luz y comienza a nevar. En lugar de volver caminando hacia atrás en busca de ayuda o quedarse en el coche, de forma imprudente y sin saber muy bien por qué, el hombre decide adentrarse en el bosque. Inevitablemente, se pierde, y la noche sigue avanzando. Cuando el agotamiento y el frío empiezan a vencerlo, vislumbra un extraño resplandor en medio de la oscuridad.

Blancura es la última novela de Jon Fosse. El autor galardonado con el Nobel arrastra al lector en una narración enigmática, inquietante e hipnótica: una lectura tan breve como intensa.

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Premio Nobel Prize for Literature 2023

WINNER OF THE 2023 NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATURE

A man starts driving without knowing where he is going. He alternates between turning right and left and ultimately finds himself stuck at the end of a forest road. It soon grows dark and begins to snow. But instead of searching for help, he ventures, foolishly, into the dark forest. Inevitably, the man gets lost, and as he grows cold and tired, he encounters a glowing being amid the obscurity. Strange, haunting and dreamlike, A Shining is the latest work of fiction by National Book Award-finalist Jon Fosse, the Beckett of the twenty-first century (Le Monde).

Cómo llegamos a conocernos? Qué significan los otros en nuestras vidas?

Asle, un pintor viudo que vive solo en un fiordo noruego, observa su vida entera con la mirada fija en el flujo del mar. No se trata de la nostalgia de un recuerdo, se trata de una observación meticulosa que busca dónde ha fallado.

Ha sufrido la adicción, la incomprensión de una sociedad cerrada y su propia oscuridad como artista, pero es el amor hacia Ales lo que le obliga a ir más allá del mundo más cercano.

Septología es una apasionante novela sobre el sentido de la existencia escrita con una voz hipnótica y única. Un libro que pasará a la historia por su representación de la consciencia.

Tengo que ir hasta los límites de mi mente y cruzarlos. Cruzar los límites da mucho miedo cuando sientes que eres muy frágil.
Jon Fosse, The New Yorker.

Para mí no hay duda de que existe una estrecha conexión entre el pensamiento del maestro Eckhart, mi principal influencia católica, y las formas de pensar budistas.
Jon Fosse, La Marea.

En esta gran obra, que será un clásico, Jon Fosse va más allá de la memoria y el flujo de consciencia. Con un narrador nuevo, es capaz de representar el momento de la consciencia, cuando el ser humano observa el mundo exterior y su relación con él.
Silvia Bardelás, editora de Septología.

Esta edición recopila los tres volúmenes que componen Septología, la gran obra de Jon Fosse: El otro nombre, Yo es otro y Un nuevo nombre.

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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 Bj rgvin,
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.

The three volumes of Jon Fosse's Septología -- El otro nombre,
Yo es otro and Un nuevo nombre -- are a transcendent
exploration of the human condition, and a radical reading
experience--incantatory, hypnotic, and utterly unique.

- New York Times

Para Jon Fosse escribir es como rezar, y para sus lectores, Trilogía es la puerta para entrar en una profundidad desconocida. Con un lenguaje sencillo y un narrador único, Fosse narra la historia de una pareja de adolescentes que van a tener un hijo e intentan sobrevivir sin ayuda en un mundo hostil.

Es una historia que permite entender la indefensión y nos hace conscientes sobre la mirada despiadada de la sociedad. Pero también revive de forma exquisita el primer amor, la experiencia de comenzar la vida. Una obra emocional que, desde la oscuridad de una situación extrema, ilumina a quien la aborda.

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Homeless and sleepless, Asle and Alida wander around Bergen
in the rain, trying to make a life for themselves and the child they
expect. Through a rich web of historical, cultural, and theological
allusions, Fosse constructs a modern parable of injustice,
resistance, crime, and redemption. He showcases what it means
to be destitute, as well as captures the exquisite nature of a first
love, and the hope that comes with starting a new life.

Consisting of three novellas, Trilogía is a haunting, mysterious,
and poignant evocation of love from the 2023 Nobel Prize in
Literature.

«Jon Fosse es uno de los más importantes escritores europeos . -Karl Ove Knausgård

Düsseldorf, 1853. El joven artista Lars Hertervig, alumno de Hans Gude en la Academia de Arte de Düsseldorf, está encerrado en su habitación, paralizado por la ansiedad que le provocan las clases de arte y el amor irracional que siente hacia Helene Winckelmann, la hija de su casera. La fijación de Lars por Helene, marcada por alucinaciones y furiosos delirios sexuales, obliga a la familia de la joven a expulsarlo de la habitación donde se hospeda. Sin ningún lugar adónde ir, Hertervig deambula entre un café donde soporta las burlas de sus compañeros de la academia y el apartamento de los Winckelmann, en el que intenta desesperadamente ser admitido de nuevo: una especie de limbo que lo lleva a un inexorable estado de locura.

Melancolía es una ficcional, salvaje y febril invocación del artista noruego del siglo -- Lars Hertervig, que pintó paisajes bañados de luz, sufrió una enfermedad mental y murió pobre en 1902. Galardonada con el Melsom Prize y el Sunnm re Prize, está considerada una de las grandes novelas de quien ha sido llamado «el Beckett de siglo -- (Le Monde).

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Winner of the 2023 Nobel Prize in Literature

Düsseldorf, 1853. Lars Hertervig, a student of Hans Gude at the city's Academy of Art, is locked in his room, paralyzed by anxiety over his classes and his irrational passion for Helene Winckelmann, the daughter of his landlady. Disturbed by Lars's obsession with Helene, which manifests itself in hallucinations and unhinged sexual delusions, the family soon evicts him. With nowhere to go, Lars spends his time at a café, where he is taunted by his classmates from the academy, while desperately trying to be accepted back into the Winckelmann's apartment. It is a state of limbo that drives him inexorably into madness.

Melancholy is a fictional, wild and feverish invocation of nineteenth-century Norwegian artist Lars Hertervig, who painted light-bathed landscapes, suffered a mental breakdown and died poor in 1902. The winner of the Melsom and Sunnm re Prizes, it is considered one of the greatest works of an author hailed as the Beckett of the century (Le Monde).