Fleur Jaeggy

The Water Statues (eBook, ePUB)

Übersetzer: Alhadeff, Gini

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Family, obsession, and privilege boiled down by the icy-hot Swiss-Italian master stylist Fleur Jaeggy

Even among Fleur Jaeggy's singular and intricate works, The Water Statues is a shiningly peculiar book. Concerned with loneliness and wealth's 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 Statueswith its band of deracinated, loosely related souls (milling about as often in the distant past as in the mansion's garden full of intoxicated snails)delivers like a slap an indelible picture of the swampiness of family life.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: New Directions
• Seitenzahl: 96
• Erscheinungstermin: 7. September 2021
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780811229760
• Artikelnr.: 61315542

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).