I is another: septology iii-v - Jon Fosse

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Fosse's portrait of intersecting lives is that rare metaphysical novel that readers will find compulsively readable.

-- Publishers Weekly, Starred Review i>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, sleik, 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.

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?.