I Am the Brother of XX

Description

Fleur Jaeggy is often noted for her terse and telegraphic style, which somehow brews up a profound paradox that seems bent on haunting the reader: despite a sort of zero-at-the-bone baseline, her fiction is weirdly also incredibly moving. How does she do it? No one knows. But here, in her newest collection, I Am the Brother of XX, she does it again. Like a magician or a master criminal, who can say how she gets away with it, but whether the stories involve famous writers (Calvino, Ingeborg Bachmann, Joseph Brodsky) or baronesses or 13th-century visionaries or tormented siblings bred up in elite Swiss boarding schools, they somehow steal your heart. And they don’t rest at that, but endlessly disturb your mind.
Binding Type: Paperback
Contributors: Fleur Jaeggy,Gini Alhadeff (Translator)
Published: 07/25/2017
Publisher: New Directions Publishing Corporation
ISBN: 9780811225984
Pages: 128
Weight: 0.25lbs
Size: 0.40″ H x 6.90″ L x 4.90″ W

About the Author
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).Alhadeff, Gini: – Gini Alhadeff won the 2018 Florio Prize for her translation of Fleur Jaeggy’s I am the Brother of XX.