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August 2021 Issue [Reviews]

Seven Steps to Heaven

Jon Fosse makes the novel new
Illustration by Matthew Richardson

Illustration by Matthew Richardson 

[Reviews]

Seven Steps to Heaven

Jon Fosse makes the novel new
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The Other Name: Septology I–II, by Jon Fosse. Translated by Damion Searls. Transit Books. 336 pages. $17.95.

I Is Another: Septology III–V, by Jon Fosse. Translated by Damion Searls.
Transit Books. 256 pages. $17.95.

Five million years ago, on the southernmost coastline of Africa, some two hundred miles from Cape Town, a cave was formed, most likely by waves hammering at the stone. Today, the mouth of the cave, called Blombos, yawns wide, one hundred feet above sea level and a few hundred feet from what is now the shore.…

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 is a contributing writer for The New York Times Magazine. He teaches at Bard College.


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