Name: These Possible Lives
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Author: Fleur Jaeggy
ISBN: 9780811226875

Type

Physical Book

Author

Fleur Jaeggy

Publisher

New Directions

Year

2017

Language

English

Pages

Format

Paperback

ISBN13

9780811226875

Edition No.

Synopsis "These Possible Lives "

Brief in the way a razor’s slice is brief, remarkable essays by a peerless stylist New Directions is proud to present Fleur Jaeggy’s strange and mesmerizing essays about the writers Thomas De Quincey, John Keats, and Marcel Schwob. A renowned stylist of hyper-brevity in fiction, Fleur Jaeggy proves herself an even more concise master of the essay form, albeit in a most peculiar and lapidary poetic vein. Of De Quincey’s early nineteenth-century world we hear of the habits of writers: Charles Lamb “spoke of ‘Lilliputian rabbits’ when eating frog fricassse”; Henry Fuseli “ate a diet of raw meat in order to obtain splendid dreams”; “Hazlitt was perceptive about musculature and boxers”; and “Wordsworth used a buttery knife to cut the pages of a first-edition Burke.” In a book of “blue devils” and night visions, the Keats essay opens: “In 1803, the guillotine was a common child’s toy.” And poor Schwob’s end comes as he feels “like a ‘dog cut open alive’”: “His face colored slightly, turning into a mask of gold. His eyes stayed open imperiously. No one could shut his eyelids. The room smoked of grief.” Fleur Jaeggy’s essays―or are they prose poems?―smoke of necessity: the pages are on fire.

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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