Sweet Days of Discipline

Description

A novel about obsessive love and madness set in postwar Switzerland, Fleur Jaeggy’s eerily beautiful novel begins innocently enough: “At fourteen I was a boarder in a school in the Appenzell.” But there is nothing innocent here. With the off-handed remorselessness of a young Eve, the narrator describes her potentially lethal designs to win the affections of Fréderique, the apparently perfect new girl. In Tim Parks’ consummate translation (with its “spare, haunting quality of a prose poem,” TLS), Sweet Days of Discipline is a peerless, terrifying, and gorgeous work.
Binding Type: Paperback
Contributors: Fleur Jaeggy,Tim Parks (Translator)
Published: 10/29/2019
Publisher: New Directions Publishing Corporation
ISBN: 9780811229036
Pages: 112
Weight: 0.30lbs
Size: 0.40″ H x 7.80″ L x 5.10″ 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).Parks, Tim: – Tim Parks is the author of more than twenty novels and works of nonfiction, including the best-selling Italian Neighbors and An Italian Education. His novels include Europa which was shortlisted for the Booker Prize. His essays have appeared in the The New Yorker and the New York Review of Books. Parks is also a renowned translator from the Italian and lives in Verona.