Another Name. Septology I-II

Yun Fosse — a renowned Norwegian writer and playwright, laureate of the 2023 Nobel Prize «For innovative plays and prose that give voice to the inexpressible», winner of the Nordic Council Prize and the theatrical equivalent of the Nobel Prize... — the International Ibsen Prize, nominee for the International Booker Prize in 2020 and 2022.

«For my plays, it's better when the characters' emotions are sealed under a tight lid — and under that lid, they boil».

The artist Asle lives in Dylgju. He mainly interacts only with his neighbor, a single fisherman named Asleik. Occasionally, he has conversations with another artist struggling with alcohol dependence, also named Asle. Both Asles are friends and, in some sense, represent two versions of the same life.

On Christmas Eve, one of them finds the other in a snowdrift. In saving his comrade from a cold death, the hero remembers the past and begins to look at friendship, faith, and creativity in a new way.

«...I try to discern why I keep painting, and I delve deeper into what I see, into what is probably greater than life, but there is no appropriate way to express it in words...»

«something lives in the painting and speaks silently from it, sometimes it takes just one brushstroke — and the painting starts to speak...»