Fleur Jaeggy, trans. from the Italian by Gini Alhadeff. New Directions, $14.95 trade paper (128p) ISBN 978-0-8112-2598-4
The stories in Jaeggy’s (Sweet Days of Discipline) collection are masterpieces of fury and restraint. Most are only a few pages, and the short, declarative sentences burrow into the deepest corners of the characters’ psyches, only to suddenly...
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Fleur Jaeggy, trans. from the Italian by Minna Zallman Proctor. New Directions, $14.95 (128p) ISBN 978-0-8112-2687-5
In this eloquent, whimsical collection, Swiss novelist and short story writer Jaeggy (I Am the Brother of XX) flexes her nonfiction muscles. The book is compact yet expansive in its content, with three poetic essays focusing on the respective lives...
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Fleur Jaeggy, trans. by Tim Parks. New Directions, $10.95 (101p) ISBN 978-0-8112-1235-9
Jaeggy, a Swiss-born writer living in Italy, gives her narrator an abundance of memorable lines describing a boarding school set in idyllic Switzerland. Recalling the constant machinations and undercurrents there, she comments, "A boarding school is
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Fleur Jaeggy, trans. from the Italian by Gini Alhadeff. New Directions, $13.95 trade paper (96p) ISBN 978-0-8112-2975-3
In this strange and shimmering nonlinear text from Swiss writer Jaeggy (I Am the Brother of XX), the lonely children of the wealthy and their eccentric employees negotiate the boundary between companionship and solitude. In Amsterdam, Beeklam grows...
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