Fleur Jaeggy

Sweet Days of Discipline

Übersetzung:Parks, Tim

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Set in postwar Switzerland, Fleur Jaeggy's eerily beautiful 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, and as the narrator broods over her schemes to win the affections of the perfect new girl, the novel gathers an unsettling energy.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: And Other Stories
• New ed
• Seitenzahl: 102
• Erscheinungstermin: 5. Februar 2018
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 197mm x 128mm x 17mm
• Gewicht: 130g
• ISBN-13: 9781911508182
• ISBN-10: 1911508180
• Artikelnr.: 50315831

Autorenporträt

Translated into about twenty languages, Fleur Jaeggy is a true original of European writing. The Times Literary Supplement named Fleur Jaeggy's S. S. Proleterka as a Best Book of the Year, and her Sweet Days of Discipline won the Premio Bagutta as well as the Premio Speciale Rapallo.

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