I am the Brother of XX

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 collection, I Am the Brother of XX, she does it again. Like a magician or a master criminal, who can say how she gets away with it, but whether the stories involve famous writers (Calvino, Ingeborg Bachmann, Joseph Brodsky) or baronesses or 13th-century visionaries or tormented siblings bred up in elite Swiss boarding schools, they somehow steal your heart. And they don't rest at that, but endlessly disturb your mind.

About the author

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).

Product details

• Authors: Gini Alhadeff, Fleur Jaeggy
• Assisted by: Gini Alhadeff (Translation)
• Publisher: New Directions
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 31.07.2017
• EAN: 9780811225984
• ISBN: 978-0-8112-2598-4
• Dimensions: 128 mm x 179 mm x 9 mm
• Subject: Fiction > Narrative literature