Fleur Jaeggy Libri

Un collegio femminile in Svizzera, nell'Appenzell. Un'atmosfera di idillio e cattività. Arriva una “nuova”: è bella, severa, perfetta, sembra che abbia già vissuto tutto. La protagonista - un'altra interna del collegio - si sente attratta da questa figura, che lascia intravedere qualcosa di quieto e terribile. E il terribile, a poco a poco, si scopre: è la terra di nessuno tra perfezione e follia. Lo stile limpido e nervoso, l'acutezza delle notazioni, l'intensità di questa storia fanno risuonare una corda segreta, quella che si nasconde nell'immaginario collegio da cui tutti siamo usciti. E ci lascia toccati da un'emozione rara, fra lo sconcerto, l'attrazione e il timore, come se al centro di un'aiuola ben curata vedessimo aprirsi una voragine.

The collection features seven interconnected stories that delve into a brooding atmosphere of horror and chilling irony. Each tale is marked by a terse style, evoking a sense of menace and a disturbing exploration of human emotions. The narratives are influenced by the FÜhn, a warm wind from the Alps, which prompts characters to confront their inner turmoil and societal facades. Jaeggy's writing captures the violent gestures and subversive delirium that permeate the lives of seemingly respectable individuals, creating a haunting reading experience.

As concentrated as bullets, new stories by the inimitable Fleur Jaeggy

"Even among Fleur Jaeggy's singular and intricate works, The Water Statues is a shiningly peculiar book. Concerned with wealth's loneliness and odd emotional poverty, this early novel is in part structured as a play: the dramatis personae include the various relatives, friends, and servants of a man named Beeklam, a wealthy recluse who keeps statues in his villa's flooded basement, where memories shiver in uncertain light and the waters run off to the sea. Dedicated to Ingeborg Bachmann and fleshed out with Jaeggy's austere yet voluptuous style, The Water Statues-with its band of deracinated, loosely related souls (milling about as often in the distant past as in the mansion's garden full of intoxicated snails)-delivers like a slap an indelible picture of the swampiness of family life"--

Brief in the way a razor's slice is brief, remarkable essays by a peerless stylist

In sieben Erzählungen entwirft Fleur Jaeggy Wirklichkeiten von äußeren und inneren Zwängen, in denen sich die Menschen beunruhigend gut eingerichtet haben. Eingeengt in Ehen, Beziehungen, Altersheimen und Anstalten versuchen sie zurechtzukommen mit dem, was das Schicksal ihnen zugedacht hat. Stets ist es ein Kampf auf Leben und Tod und manchmal erscheint das Unglück als ein Geschenk des Himmels. Mit schonungsloser Präzision erschafft Fleur Jaeggy ein Kaleidoskop aus subversiven Figuren, die eine Aura von Gewalt umgibt.

Jaeggys Prosa erkundet die Grenzbereiche der Erfahrungen ihrer Protagonisten, die mit inneren und äußeren Zwängen kämpfen und gleichzeitig paktieren.

Proleterka ist ein eindringlicher Familienroman, der die Reise einer 15-jährigen Tochter und ihres kranken Vaters nach Griechenland beschreibt. In klarer Sprache entfaltet sich ihre Beziehung, während sie die Geheimnisse ihrer einsamen Kindheit und ihre Sehnsucht nach dem Leben und ersten Erfahrungen erkundet.