Fleur Jaeggy Book order

"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"--

Compressed, delicate and brutally precise, Proleterka is a fierce coming-of- age story.

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 YorkerNothing rivals its intensity.- Los Angeles TimesHow a novel could be so chilly and so passionate at the same time is a puzzle, but that icy-hot quality is only one of the distinctions of Sweet Days of Discipline.- April Bernard, NewsdayStartling and originalso disturbing and so haunting.- Cathleen Schine, The New York Review of Books

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

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

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.