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I Am the Brother of XX by Fleur Jaeggy
$32.50 AUD
Category: Fiction
Fleur Jaeggy is often noted for her terse and telegraphic style, which somehow brews up a profound paradox that seems bent on haunting the reader: despite a sort of zero-at-the-bone baseline, her fiction is weirdly also incredibly moving. How does she do it? No one knows. But here, in her newest collect ...Show more
Last Vanities: Stories by Fleur Jaeggy
$31.00 AUD
Category: Fiction
"Reading time is approximately four hours. Remembering time, as for its author, the rest of one's life," said Joseph Brodsky of Fleur Jaeggy's novel, Sweet Days of Displine. Now Jaeggy has come up with seven stories, each at some deep level in dark complicity with the others, all as terse and spare as i ...Show more
Sweet Days of Discipline by Fleur Jaeggy; Tim Parks
$32.00 AUD
Category: Fiction
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 ...Show more
The Water Statues by Fleur Jaeggy; Gini Alhadeff (Translator)
$35.00 AUD
Category: Fiction
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 name ...Show more
These Possible Lives by Fleur Jaeggy
$21.95 AUD
Category: Anthologies, Essays & Journals | Reading Level: General Adult
New Directions is proud to present Fleur Jaeggy's 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 the essay form, albeit in a most peculiar and la ...Show more
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