These Possible Lives - Paperback
by Fleur Jaeggy
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Availability:In StockContributor:Fleur Jaeggy, Minna Proctor (Translator)Publish date:2017-07-25Pages:64
Language:EnglishPublisher:New Directions Publishing CorporationISBN-13:9780811226875ISBN-10:811226875UPC:9780811226875Book Category:Biography & Autobiography, Social ScienceBook Subcategory:Literary Figures, EssaysSize:6.90 x 5.00 x 0.30 inchesWeight:0.0992Product ID:SC2EZ1V5T3
These Possible Lives
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...
Language:EnglishPublisher:New Directions Publishing CorporationISBN-13:9780811226875ISBN-10:811226875UPC:9780811226875Book Category:Biography & Autobiography, Social ScienceBook Subcategory:Literary Figures, EssaysSize:6.90 x 5.00 x 0.30 inchesWeight:0.0992Product ID:SC2EZ1V5T3
Jaeggy, Fleur: - Fleur Jaeggy-- "a wonderful, brilliant, savage writer" (Susan Sontag) --was born in 1940 in Zurich and lives in Milan. Her work has been acclaimed as "small-scale, intense, and impeccably focused "(The New Yorker) and "addictive" (Kirkus).Proctor, Minna: - The author of Do You Hear What I Hear? Religious Calling, the Priesthood, and My Father, and the editor of The Literary...
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