
I am the Brother of XX
Winner of the John Florio Prize for its translation
A wife is suspended in a bird cage; a thirteenth-century visionary senses the foreskin of Christ on her tongue: Fleur Jaeggy’s gothic imagination knows no limits. Whether telling of mystics, tormented families or famously private writers, Jaeggy’s terse, telegraphic writing is always psychologically clear-eyed and deeply moving, always one step ahead, or to the side, of her readers’ expectations.
In this, her long-awaited return, we read of an ‘eerie maleficent calm, a brutal calm’, and recognise the timbre of a writer for whom a paradoxical world seethes with quiet violence.
- Forfatter
- Fleur Jaeggy
- ISBN
- 9781911508021
- Språk
- Engelsk
- Vekt
- 161 gram
- Utgivelsesdato
- 6.7.2017
- Forlag
- And Other Stories
- Antall sider
- 144
