Fleur Jaeggy

The Water Statues

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Family, obsession, and privilege boiled down by the icy-hot Swiss-Italian master stylist Fleur JaeggyEven among Fleur Jaeggy's singular and intricate works, The Water Statues is a shiningly peculiar book. Concerned with loneliness and wealth's odd emotional poverty, this early novel is in part structured as a play: the dramatis personae include the various relatives, friends, and servants of a man named Beeklam, a wealthy recluse who keeps statues in his villa's flooded basement, where memories shiver in uncertain light and the waters run off to the sea. Dedicated to Ingeborg Bachmann and fleshed out with Jaeggy's austere yet voluptuous style… Mehr

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Produktdetails

Weitere Autoren: Alhadeff, Gini (Übers.)

ISBN: 978-0-8112-2976-0
EAN: 9780811229760
Produktnummer: 35928683
Verlag: New Directions
Sprache: Englisch
Erscheinungsjahr: 2021
Seitenangabe: 96 S.
Plattform: EPUB

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).