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The Water Statues
Engelsk Paperback

The Water Statues

Engelsk Paperback

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Family, obsession, and privilege boiled down by the icy-hot Swiss-Italian master stylist Fleur Jaeggy. Even among Jaeggy’s singular and intricate works, The Water Statues is a shiningly peculiar book. Concerned with loneliness and wealth’s 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. Fleshed out with Jaeggy’s austere yet voluptuous style, The Water Statues delivers like a slap an indelible picture of the swampiness of family life. ‘Reading Jaeggy is not unlike diving naked and headlong into a bramble of black rose bushes, so intrigued you are by their beauty: it’s a swift, prickly undertaking, and you emerge the other end bloodied all over’ -Daniel Johnson, The Paris Review
Product detaljer
Sprog:
Engelsk
Sider:
0
ISBN-13:
9781913505448
Indbinding:
Paperback
Udgave:
ISBN-10:
1913505448
Udg. Dato:
5 maj 2022
Længde:
11mm
Bredde:
199mm
Højde:
129mm
Forlag:
And Other Stories
Oplagsdato:
5 maj 2022
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