Fleur Jaeggy

Last Vanities

Buch

Reading time is approximately four hours. Remembering time, as for its author, the rest of one's life, said Joseph Brodsky of Fleur Jaeggy's novel, Sweet Days of Displine. Now Jaeggy has come up with seven stories, each at some deep level in dark complicity with the others, all as terse and spare as if etched with a steel tip. A brooding atmosphere of horror, a disturbing and subversive propensity for delirium haunts the violent gestures and chilly irony of these tales. Full of menace, the air they breathe is stirred only by the FÜhn, the warm west wind of the Alps that inclines otherwise respectable citizens to vent the spleen and angst of l… Mehr

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Produktdetails

Weitere Autoren: Parks, Tim (Übers.)

ISBN: 978-0-8112-1374-5
EAN: 9780811213745
Produktnummer: 9294638
Verlag: W. W. Norton & Company
Sprache: Englisch
Erscheinungsjahr: 1998
Seitenangabe: 96 S.
Masse: H20.4 cm x B13.4 cm x D0.8 cm 118 g
Gewicht: 118

Über den Autor

Fleur Jaeggy- a wonderful, brilliant, savage writer (Susan Sontag) -was born in 1940 in Zurich and lives in Milan. Her work has been acclaimed as small-scale, intense, and impeccably focused (The New Yorker) and addictive (Kirkus).