Sweet Days of Discipline: Novel (New Directions Paperbook,

Sweet Days of Discipline: Novel (New Directions Paperbook, 758)

"Dipped in the blue ink of adolescence, Fleur Jaeggy's pen is an engraver's needle depicting roots, twigs, and branches of the tree of madness, growing in the splendid isolation of the small Swiss garden of knowledge into full leaf until it obscures every perspective. Extraordinary prose. Reading time is approximately four hours. Remembering time, as for its author: the rest of one'sÂ life."â€•Joseph Brodsky
Set in postwar Switzerland, Fleur Jaeggyâ€™s eerily beautiful novel begins simply and innocently enough: "At fourteen I was a boarder in a school in the Appenzell." But there is nothing truly simple or innocent here. With the off-handed knowingness of a remorseless young Eve, the narrator describes life as a captive of the school and her designs to win the affections of the apparently perfect new girl, FrÃ©derique. As she broods over her schemes as well as on the nature of control and madness, the novel gathers a suspended, unsettling energy. Now translated into six languages,Â I beati anni del castigoÂ in its Italian original won the 1990 Premio Bagutta and the 1990 Premio Speciale Rapallo. In Tim Parksâ€™ consummate translation (with its "spare, haunting quality of a prose poem"),Â Sweet Days of DisciplineÂ was selected as one of theÂ London Times Literary Supplementâ€™s Notable Books of 1992: "In a period when novels are generally overblown and scarcely portable, it is good to be able to recommend [one that is] miraculously short and beautifully written."
Country USA
Brand New Directions
Manufacturer New Directions
Binding Paperback
ReleaseDate 1993-05-17
UnitCount 1
EANs 9780811212359

Country	USA
Brand	New Directions
Manufacturer	New Directions
Binding	Paperback
ReleaseDate	1993-05-17
UnitCount	1
EANs	9780811212359

Sweet Days of Discipline: Novel (New Directions Paperbook, 758)

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