Fleur Jaeggy

Sweet Days of Discipline (eBook, ePUB)

Übersetzer: Parks, Tim

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

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 cover

A 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, TLS), Sweet Days of Discipline is a peerless, terrifying, and gorgeous work.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: New Directions
• Seitenzahl: 112
• Erscheinungstermin: 29. Oktober 2019
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780811229043
• Artikelnr.: 59592678

Autorenporträt

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).

Rezensionen

A wonderful, brilliant, savage writer.' Susan Sontag'Fleur Jaeggy's pen is an engraver's needle depicting roots, twigs, and branches of the tree of madness - extraordinary.' Joseph Brodsky'She has the enviable first glance for people and things, she harbors a mixture of distracted levity and authoritative wisdom.' Ingeborg Bachmann'Small-scale, intense, and impeccably focused.' New YorkerNothing rivals its intensity.- Los Angeles TimesHow a novel could be so chilly and so passionate at the same time is a puzzle, but that icy-hot quality is only one of the distinctions of Sweet Days of Discipline.- April Bernard, NewsdayStartling and originalso disturbing and so haunting.- Cathleen Schine, The New York Review of Books