Jon Fosse, winner of the Nobel Prize in literature in 2023, in Oslo. Ole Berg-Brusten / NTB via AFP
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Continuation and end of the sublime sevenology of Jon Foss. An epic and luminous masterpiece. ★★★★★
Continuation and end of the sublime sevenology of Jon Fosse that you will have to start from the start if you have missed the first volume. Because this epic and luminous masterpiece of the novelist Nobélisé two years ago is a prayer that unrolls her only sentence from one end of the book to the other. You will find, in this last part, your two darling heroes which bear the same name, Asle and Asle, and which are like the two versions of the same possibility of existence.
It is in Norway, in a village in the West, that the scene takes place. Oh, don’t expect a synopsis to “impossible mission”. If there is continuation, it may be that of time. The leakage of the hours, while Alete observes a fixed point on the ocean which he sees from his window. But also the memory of Ales, the loved but deceased woman, the dinner prepared for Asleik with whom we will celebrate tomorrow Christmas, the paintings that await a proch …
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