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Water Statues

English · Paperback

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Informationen zum Autor Fleur Jaeggy is a true original of European writing and has been translated into over twenty languages. The Times Literary Supplement named Proleterka as a Best Book of the Year, and her Sweet Days of Discipline won the Premio Bagutta and the Premio Speciale Rapallo. Klappentext Family, obsession, and privilege boiled down by the icy-hot Swiss-Italian master stylist Fleur Jaeggy. Even among 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 named Beeklam, a wealthy recluse who keeps statues in his villa's flooded basement, where memories shiver in uncertain light and the waters run off to the sea. Fleshed out with Jaeggy's austere yet voluptuous style, The Water Statues delivers like a slap an indelible picture of the swampiness of family life. 'Reading Jaeggy is not unlike diving naked and headlong into a bramble of black rose bushes, so intrigued you are by their beauty: it's a swift, prickly undertaking, and you emerge the other end bloodied all over' -Daniel Johnson, The Paris Review

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Authors Fleur Jaeggy, Jaeggy Fleur
Assisted by Gini Alhadeff (Translation), Alhadeff Gini (Translation)
Publisher And Other Stories
 
Languages English
Product format Paperback
Released 31.05.2022
 
EAN 9781913505448
ISBN 978-1-913505-44-8
Dimensions 130 mm x 200 mm x 10 mm
Subjects Fiction > Narrative literature

Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945), FICTION / Literary, Fiction in translation, Modern and contemporary fiction: general and literary

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