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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
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Sweet Days of Discipline, Fleur Jaeggy
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- Released
- 2018
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- Title
- Sweet Days of Discipline
- Language
- English
- Authors
- Fleur Jaeggy
- Publisher
- And Other Stories
- Released
- 2018
- Format
- Paperback
- ISBN10
- 1911508180
- ISBN13
- 9781911508182
- Series
- Original title
- I beati anni del castigo
- Rating
- 3.4 out of 5
- Description
- 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