Fleur Jaeggy

Fleur Jaeggy ( born July 30, 1940 in Zurich ) is an Italian-speaking Swiss writer.

Life

Jaeggy was born in Zurich and grew up in Switzerland. She lives in Milan since 1968 and is married to the writer and publisher Roberto Calasso Italian. Jaeggys language is dense, almost convinced by reduction and the artifice of the apparently non-reflective " one-to -one " -telling. While you write Italian, but her books are translated into German, and their fabrics are Swiss: The middle class is being criticized, the tightness and cold. It describes a paralyzed country. In many one feels in this respect is reminiscent of Robert Walser's works or Fritz Wrath cult book Mars.

The novella The blissful years of punishment, in which life is dissected in a girls' boarding school in the Appenzell region in the 1960s, in 2006 in the twenty -volume book series "Swiss Library» been added.

In addition, it has 1972 Marcel Schwob Vies imaginaires and 1983 Musical by Thomas De Quincey The Last Days of Immanuel Kant, and Robert Schumann's house and rules of life translated into Italian.

Works

  • Il dito in bocca. Milan 1968.
  • L' angelo custode. Milan 1971.
  • Le statue d' acqua. Milano 1980. Water statues. Matthes & Seitz, Munich 1984, ISBN 3-88221-349-3.
  • The blissful years of punishment. Amendment. Berlin Verlag, Berlin, 1996; Paperback ibid. 2004, ISBN 3-8333-0102-3.
  • The fear of the sky. Narratives. Berlin Verlag, Berlin, 1997; Piper, Munich, 1999, ISBN 3-492-22602-7.
  • Proleterka. Berlin Verlag, Berlin 2002, ISBN 3-8270-0481-0.
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