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.
MEDIA REVIEWS
Publisher: And Other StoriesISBN: 9781911508021Dimensions: 198 x 129 mm
MEDIA REVIEWS
'A wonderful,brilliant,savage writer.'Susan Sontag --'Fleur Jaeggy's pen is an engraver's needle depicting roots,twigs,and branches of the tree of madness-extraordinary.'Joseph Brodsky --'She has the enviable first glance for people and things,she harbors a mixture of distracted levity and authoritative wisdom.'Ingeborg Bachmann --'Small-scale,intense,and impeccably focused.'New Yorker --'Startling and original-so disturbing and so haunting.'Cathleen Schine,The New York Review Of Books--'Thank the gods and tip the devil for Fleur Jaeggy!'Claire-Louise Bennett,author of Pond
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