Septology

By Jon Fosse, Damion Searls (translator),

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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 TimesEditors’ Choice
Named a Best Book of the Year by The New Yorker and Bookforum

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1 author picked Septology as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?

Jon Fosse’s prose is incantatory. I’ve heard him once describe it as “mystical realism,” and in Septology, it reaches its pinnacle: the sublime becomes quotidian, and the quotidian becomes sublime.

I will return to it, I’m sure, as I get older and its pages reveal another, previously hidden portion of themselves to me.

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