Fleur Jaeggy

The Water Statues

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Even among Fleur Jaeggy's singular and intricate works, The Water Statues is a shiningly peculiar book. Concerned with wealth's loneliness and 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, The Water Statues - with its band of deracinated, loosely related souls (milling about as often in t… Mehr

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Produktdetails

ISBN: 978-1-913505-45-5
EAN: 9781913505455
Produktnummer: 37986581
Verlag: And Other Stories Publishing
Sprache: Englisch
Erscheinungsjahr: 2022
Seitenangabe: 94 S.
Plattform: EPUB

Über den Autor

Fleur Jaeggy is a true original of European writing and has been translated into over twenty languages. The Times Literary Supplement named Proleterka as a Best Book of the Year, and her Sweet Days of Discipline won the Premio Bagutta and the Premio Speciale Rapallo.