Bibliograph

I am the brother of XX, Fleur Jaeggy ; translated by Gini Alhadeff

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Label

I am the brother of XX, Fleur Jaeggy ; translated by Gini Alhadeff

Language

eng

Index

no index present

Literary Form

short stories

Main title

I am the brother of XX

Oclc number

961003091

Responsibility statement

Fleur Jaeggy ; translated by Gini Alhadeff

Summary

"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."--Amazon.com

Table Of Contents

I am the brother of XX -- Negde -- The last of the line -- The gentleman and the lizard -- Agnes -- The aseptic room -- The heir -- Portrait of an unknown woman -- The black lace veil -- An encounter in the Bronx -- The aviary -- The visitor -- Adelaide -- Tropics -- Cat -- Osmosis -- Names -- The hanging angel -- The perfect choice -- F.K. -- The salt water house

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