Last Vanities: Stories

Reading time is approximately four hours. Remembering time, as for its author, the rest of one's life, said Joseph Brodsky of Fleur Jaeggy's novel, Sweet Days of Displine. Now Jaeggy has come up with seven stories, each at some deep level in dark complicity with the others, all as terse and spare as if etched with a steel tip. A brooding atmosphere of horror, a disturbing and subversive propensity for delirium haunts the violent gestures and chilly irony of these tales. Full of menace, the air they breathe is stirred only by the FÜhn, the warm west wind of the Alps that inclines otherwise respectable citizens to vent the spleen and angst of life's last vanities.

Author: Fleur Jaeggy, Tim Parks
Publisher: New Directions Publishing Corporation
Published: 04/17/1998
Pages: 96
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.26lbs
Size: 8.03h x 5.27w x 0.32d
ISBN13: 9780811213745
ISBN10: 0811213749
BISAC Categories:
- Fiction | Short Stories (single author)