Name: Proleterka PB
SKU: 51468006
Price: 477.00 TWD
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Author: Fleur Jaeggy
ISBN: 9781911508564

Type

Physical Book

Author

Fleur Jaeggy

Publisher

And Other Stories

Year

2019

Language

English

Pages

Format

Paperback

ISBN13

9781911508564

Proleterka PB

Fleur Jaeggy (Author) · And Other Stories · Paperback

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Synopsis "Proleterka PB"

A fifteen-year-old girl and her father, Johannes, take a cruise to Greece on the Proleterka. Jaeggy recounts the girl's youth in her distinctively strange, telescopic prose: the remarried mother, cold and unconcerned; the father who was allowed only rare visits with the child; the years spent stashed away with relatives or at boarding school. For the girl and her father, their time on the ship becomes their 'last and first chance to be together.' On board, she becomes the object of the sailors' affection, receiving a violent, carnal education. Mesmerised by the desire to be experienced, she crisply narrates her trysts as well as her near-total neglect of her father. Proleterka is a ferocious study of distance, diffidence and 'insomniac resentment.'

Fleur Jaeggy

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Fleur Jaeggy, premio Gottfried Keller 2024 y Grand Prix de la Literatura Suiza 2025, nació en Zúrich, vivió en Roma y París, y en la actualidad reside en Milán. Figura internacionalmente reconocida, sus obras han sido traducidas a numerosas lenguas. Es autora de las novelas El dedo en la boca (1968), El ángel de la guarda (1971), Las estatuas de agua (1980), Los hermosos años del castigo (1989, Premio Bagutta 1990, Premio Bocaccio Europa 1994) y Proleterka (2001, Premio Vailate Alderigo Sala 2001 y Donna Città di Roma 2001, Premio Viareggio 2002 y Libro del Año 2003 por el Times Literary Supplement), así como de los volúmenes de relatos El temor del cielo (1994, Premio Moravia 1994) y El último de la estirpe (2014, Premio Giuseppe Tomasi de Lampedusa 2015).

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