Fleur Jaeggy

I Am the Brother of XX

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As concentrated as bullets, new stories by the inimitable Fleur JaeggyFleur Jaeggy is often noted for her terse and telegraphic style, which somehow brews up a profound paradox that seems bent on haunting the reader: despite a sort of zero-at-the-bone baseline, her fiction is weirdly also incredibly moving. How does she do it? No one knows. But here, in her newest collection, I Am the Brother of XX, she does it again. Like a magician or a master criminal, who can say how she gets away with it, but whether the stories involve famous writers (Calvino, Ingeborg Bachmann, Joseph Brodsky) or baronesses or 13th-century visionaries or tormented sibl… Mehr

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Produktdetails

Weitere Autoren: Alhadeff, Gini (Übers.)

ISBN: 978-0-8112-2599-1
EAN: 9780811225991
Produktnummer: 34248778
Verlag: New Directions
Sprache: Englisch
Erscheinungsjahr: 2017
Seitenangabe: 128 S.
Plattform: EPUB
Masse: 1'582 KB

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).