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A review by tarrowood
A New Name: Septology VI-VII by Jon Fosse
5.0
An intense grappling with the divinity of God and His power through His powerlessness via the allowance of free will.
Fosse braids together a study of what it means to suffer and live both with and without God using parallel characters (doppelgängers, perhaps?). Two realities intertwine to create paradoxical world that begins weaving time itself together?
All of my thoughts will never be complete with this one. A trilogy spanning 667 pages that is one sentence. I’ve never read such a rhythmic book that mimics being motionless on a sea (I thought of this in book one, and Fosse kind of hammers it home in the second and especially the third). It is incantatory and creates its form through its formlessness? I don’t know, and I don’t think I’ll ever know; just like Asle, the main character, stresses that to know God is to never fully understand Him, that there’s a divinity and holiness in the mysticism shrouding our Creator
Fosse braids together a study of what it means to suffer and live both with and without God using parallel characters (doppelgängers, perhaps?). Two realities intertwine to create paradoxical world that begins weaving time itself together?
All of my thoughts will never be complete with this one. A trilogy spanning 667 pages that is one sentence. I’ve never read such a rhythmic book that mimics being motionless on a sea (I thought of this in book one, and Fosse kind of hammers it home in the second and especially the third). It is incantatory and creates its form through its formlessness? I don’t know, and I don’t think I’ll ever know; just like Asle, the main character, stresses that to know God is to never fully understand Him, that there’s a divinity and holiness in the mysticism shrouding our Creator