Fleur Jaeggy

Sweet Days of Discipline

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On the heels of I Am the Brother of XX and These Possible Lives, here is Jaeggy's fabulously witchy first book in English, with a new Peter Mendelsund coverA novel about obsessive love and madness set in postwar Switzerland, Fleur Jaeggy's eerily beautiful novel begins innocently enough: At fourteen I was a boarder in a school in the Appenzell.” But there is nothing innocent here. With the off-handed remorselessness of a young Eve, the narrator describes her potentially lethal designs to win the affections of Fréderique, the apparently perfect new girl. In Tim Parks' consummate translation (with its spare, haunting quality of a prose poem,” T… Mehr

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Produktdetails

Weitere Autoren: Parks, Tim (Übers.)

ISBN: 978-0-8112-2904-3
EAN: 9780811229043
Produktnummer: 34249487
Verlag: New Directions
Sprache: Englisch
Erscheinungsjahr: 2019
Seitenangabe: 112 S.
Plattform: EPUB
Masse: 465 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).