Fleur Jaeggy

I AM THE BROTHER OF XX

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Fleur 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 siblings bred up in elite Swiss boarding schools, they somehow steal your… Mehr

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Produktdetails

Weitere Autoren: Alhadeff, Gini (Übers.)

ISBN: 978-0-8112-2598-4
EAN: 9780811225984
Produktnummer: 21267033
Verlag: New Directions
Sprache: Englisch
Erscheinungsjahr: 2017
Seitenangabe: 128 S.
Masse: H17.7 cm x B12.9 cm x D1.2 cm 122 g
Gewicht: 122

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).