A wife is suspended in a bird cage, a thirteenth-century visionary senses the foreskin of Christ on her tongue: Fleur Jaeggy's gothic imagination knows no limits. Whether telling of mystics, tormented families or famously private writers, Jaeggy's terse, telegraphic writing is always psychologically clear-eyed and deeply moving, always one step ahead, or to the side, of her readers' expectations. In this, her long-awaited return, we read of an 'eerie maleficent calm, a brutal calm', and recognise the timbre of a writer for whom a paradoxical world seethes with quiet violence.
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ISBN | 9781911508021 |
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Sprache | eng |
Cover | Kartonierter Einband (Kt) |
Verlag | And Other Stories |
Jahr | 20170623 |
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