Set in post-war Switzerland, Fleur Jaeggy's novel begins simply and innocently enough: `At fourteen I was a boarder in a school in the Appenzell'. But there is nothing truly simple or innocent here. With the offhanded knowingness of a remorseless
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Set in post-war Switzerland, Fleur Jaeggy's novel begins simply and innocently enough: `At fourteen I was a boarder in a school in the Appenzell'. But there is nothing truly simple or innocent here. With the offhanded knowingness of a remorseless
New Directions is proud to present Fleur Jaeggys strange and mesmerizing essays about the writers Thomas De Quincey, John Keats, and Marcel Schwob. A renowned stylist of hyper-brevity in fiction, Fleur Jaeggy proves herself an even more concise master of
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
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 t
Fleur Jaeggy, født i Zürich, bosat i Milano, er en italiensksproget schweizisk forfatter, oversætter og essayist. Hun debuterede i 1968 med bogen Il dito in bocca og har siden udgivet syv skønlitterære bøger. Tugtens lykkelige år fra 1989 blev Fleur Jaegg
Fleur Jaeggy, født i Zürich, bosat i Milano, er en italiensksproget schweizisk forfatter, oversætter og essayist. Hun debuterede i 1968 med bogen Il dito in bocca og har siden udgivet syv skønlitterære bøger. Proleterka er navnet på det skib, som romanens