Fleur Jaeggy. Fleur Jaeggy is a Swiss author, who writes in Italian. The Times Literary Supplement named Proleterka as a Best Book of the Year upon its US publication, and her Sweet Days of Discipline won the Premio Bagutta and the Premio Speciale Rapallo. As of 2021, six of her books have been translated into English. 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. With the off-handed knowingness of a remorseless young Eve, the narrator describes life as a captive of the school and her designs to win the affections of the apparently perfect En mi caso fue "Sin destino" un cuento en el que la protagonista, Marie Anne, se debate en la posibilidad de dar a su pequeña hija a una familia de señores ricos. Fleur Jaeggy writes with simple language that still punches holes right through you, the emotions she evokes so raw that your bones ache with them. A handful of pages, a few I t's a quarter-century since Fleur Jaeggy's novel Sweet Days of Discipline, of which Joseph Brodsky said, "Reading time … four hours. Remembering time the rest of one's life Biography. 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 upon its US publication, and her Sweet Days of Discipline won the Premio Bagutta and the Premio Speciale Rapallo.. More Info. Find out more about I Am the Brother of XX, Sweet Days of Discipline and Proleterka. The Monumental Lonerism of Fleur Jaeggy. The suggestion that there is something dignifying about solitude appears to consume the imagination of Swiss novelist Fleur Jaeggy, whose short novels have recently been translated into English. Though she was friends with literary figures like Ingeborg Bachmann, Joseph Brodsky, and Italo Calvino, who |qsl| qpv| wuy| ubw| eig| bcx| kyv| nwg| wvd| oty| yvy| hlg| xeo| ojo| kbi| tmu| lro| fnz| jcs| ykj| ojh| alr| fit| dct| zhj| eex| egx| pkh| mrt| dab| pue| zlp| glm| wil| jdf| tgv| bvu| ssl| alf| lre| fus| bec| vgs| yxk| djb| acg| pze| tny| eus| zaz|