Her work has been acclaimed as smallscale, intense, and impeccably focused the new yorker and addictive kirkus. This page contains details about the fiction book sweet days of discipline by fleur jaeggy published in 1989. I bought the book on impulse, to break my winter impasse of barely reading. Sweet days of discipline paperback brazos bookstore. English language translation by tim parks published by william heinemann in 1991. There are no aids to grasping the connection between discipline, madness, and death which the novel seems to be proposing. Fleur jaeggy born 1940, zurich, is a swiss author, who writes in italian, as i learn from wikipedia. Remembering time, as for its author, the rest of ones life, said joseph brodsky of fleur jaeggys novel, sweet days of discipline. Sweet days of discipline fleur jaeggy 9780811229036. I ts a quartercentury since fleur jaeggys novel sweet days of discipline, of which joseph brodsky said, reading time four hours. Im willing to follow this association, though given how intensely perverse fleur jaeggys work is, how much it seems to resist any reading is not on its own terms. The candied menace of fleur jaeggys sweet days of discipline. Sweet days of discipline by fleur jaeggy overdrive. About the author fleur jaeggy a wonderful, brilliant, savage writer susan sontag was born in 1940 in zurich and lives in milan.
Fleur jaeggy is a swiss writer, of italian mother tongue. Mar 02, 2018 sweet days of discipline by fleur jaeggy transl. Download for offline reading, highlight, bookmark or take notes while you read sweet days of discipline. 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. Translated into about twenty languages, fleur jaeggy is a true original of european writing. Antonia whites frost in may and christa winsloes madchen in uniform the novel on which the more famous film was based is. The perils of designing a cover for a novel you truly love. Sweet days of discipline fiction by fleur jaeggy translated by tim parks a novel about obsessive love and madness set in postwar switzerland, fleur jaeggys eerily beautiful novel begins innocently enough. But there is nothing truly simple or innocent here, and as the narrator broods over her schemes to win the affections of the perfect new girl, the novel gathers an unsettling energy. I would have to spend the best years of my life in boarding school, she writes. Sweet days of discipline by fleur jaeggy the 2188th.
Set in postwar switzerland, fleur jaeggys eerily beautif. The times literary supplement named proleterka as a best book of the year upon its us publication, and her sweet days of discipline won the premio bagutta and the premio speciale rapallo. Buy sweet days of discipline first edition by jaeggy, fleur, parks, t. Everyday low prices and free delivery on eligible orders. There was a kind of elation, faint but constant throughout all those days of discipline, the sweet days of discipline. The times literary supplement named proleterka as a best book of the year upon its us publication, and her sweet days of discipline won the premio bagutta and the premio speciale rapallo more info. Sweet days of discipline paperback third place books.
After completing her studies in switzerland, jaeggy went to live in rome, where she met ingeborg bachmann and thomas bernhard. Five of jaeggys books have been translated into english. Sweet days of discipline will be one of the books you will read in one sitting, but you will not forget it easily. Tim parks is the author of more than twenty novels and works of nonfiction, including the bestselling italian neighbors and an italian education. Sweet days of discipline by fleur jaeggy, paperback. Sweet days of discipline ebook written by fleur jaeggy. Fleur jaeggys sweet days of discipline i seem to have a habit of calling books atmospheric when i damn them with faint praise. Proleterka as a best book of the year, and her sweet days of discipline won the premio bagutta as well as the premio speciale rapallo. The swiss writer fleur jaeggy will become a giant in your eyes because of the characters she creates. Nov 03, 2017 now two new fleur jaeggy books arrive, very different from one another, both turning her interest in portraiture into a theme in itself. Jaeggy has the voice down just right for most of the short book, and describes the general feeling of these schooldays convincingly. Jaeggy, a swissborn writer living in italy, gives her narrator an abundance of memorable lines describing a boarding school set in idyllic switzerland. Sweet days of discipline new directions paperbook, 758 9780811212359. Sweet days of discipline is published by new directions.
Sweet days of discipline was fleur jaeggy s first novel to be translated into english, and was originally published in the uk by william heinemann in 1991. Initially published in italian in 1989, fleur jaeggys sweet days of discipline communicates the restlessness of female adolescence in deliciously pointed prose. Now jaeggy has come up with seven stories, each at some deep level in dark complicity. This book is the 1219th greatest fiction book of all fleur jaeggy author of sweet days of discipline sweet days of discipline book 1991 sweet days of discipline by fleur jaeggy sweet days of discipline quotes by fleur jaeggy book sweet days of discipline by fleur jaeggy description. 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. 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. Set in postwar switzerland, fleur jaeggys eerily beautiful novel begins simply and innocently enough. Proleterka as a best book of the year, and her sweet days of discipline won the premio bagutta as. Oct 29, 2019 sweet days of discipline ebook written by fleur jaeggy. Mar 14, 2018 translated into about twenty languages, fleur jaeggy is a true original of european writing.
In 1968 she went to milan to work for the publisher adelphi edizioni. Sweet days of discipline by fleur jaeggy goodreads. Set in postwar switzerland, fleur jaeggy s eerily beautif. Fleur jaeggy is a true original of european writing and has been translated into over twenty languages. Sweet days of discipline is a novelor rather novellaabout a girls boarding school. The austere fiction of fleur jaeggy the new yorker. Upon its italian publication, it won the highlyregarded prizes, the premio bagutta and the premio.
Jul 31, 2019 not long ago, an art director at new directions asked me to design a new cover for fleur jaeggys 1989 novel sweet days of discipline. Sweet days of discipline paperback green apple books. At fourteen i was a boarder in a school in the appenzell. Fleur jaeggy is an italian speaking, swissborn writer. Born in manchester in 1954, tim parks is a novelist, memoirist and translator.
Find out more about i am the brother of xx, sweet days of discipline and proleterka. Italian writer jaeggys fourth book but first to be published here. Sweet days of discipline was fleur jaeggys first novel to be translated into english, and was. Sweet days of discipline by fleur jaeggy overdrive rakuten. Sweet days of discipline by fleur jaeggy first published in italian as i beati anni del castigo in italy by adelphi edizioni in 1989. Sweet days of discipline volume 758 of naval doctrine publication volume 758 of new directions paperbook. Sweet days of discipline was fleur jaeggys first novel to be translated into english, and was originally published in the uk by william heinemann in 1991 upon its italian publication, it won the highlyregarded prizes, the premio bagutta and the. Jaeggy s tone is abrupt, and there is a kind of dismissive haughtiness not unlike frederiques about the way she leaves her readers to flounder, and about her carelessness too. But there is nothing truly simple or innocent here. Sweet days of discipline by fleur jaeggy 1993, paperback. Not long ago, an art director at new directions asked me to design a new cover for fleur jaeggys 1989 novel sweet days of discipline. With the offhanded 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. One would perhaps expect some of the singsongish languor of italian creep innot so, and the result is striking. Theres some good observation, and a decent sense of humour when her parents look for one last boarding school for her at a point when one thinks they cant do.
Read book sweet days of discipline by fleur jaeggy epub. A novel about obsessive love and madness set in postwar. Her novella, sweet days of discipline, superbly translated by tim parks, is inspired by her childhood in a swiss boarding school in the 1950s and focuses on the torment of adolescence. Jaeggys fourth novel, sweet days of discipline translated by tim parks, made her name, in 1989. Fleur jaeggys portraits of past lives the new york times.
This book is the 2188th greatest fiction book of all time as determined by. The times literary supplement named fleur jaeggys s. Jun 29, 2018 her novella, sweet days of discipline, superbly translated by tim parks, is inspired by her childhood in a swiss boarding school in the 1950s and focuses on the torment of adolescence. April bernard, newsdaystartling and originalso disturbing and so haunting. Sweet days of discipline is narrated by a boarding school student who has attended several such schools, who has been defiant, who is a disinterested student, who becomes nearly obsessed with a new student disciplined, independent, nihilistic. Now two new fleur jaeggy books arrive, very different from one another, both turning her interest in portraiture into a theme in itself.
Sweet days of discipline paperback october 29, 2019 quantity add to cart sku. Kindle store buy a kindle free kindle reading apps kindle books french ebooks. Discipline is the pivot, as it is in the two bestknown examples of the genre, both set in the 1920s. New directions publishing sweet days of discipline. Sweet days of discipline fleur jaeggy elif the reader. Sweet days of discipline by fleur jaeggy, 9780811212359. In tim parks consummate translation with its spare, haunting quality of a prose poem, tls, sweet days of discipline is a peerless, terrifying, and gorgeous work.
With the offhanded remorselessness of a young eve, the narrator describes her potentially lethal designs to win the affections of frederique, the apparently perfect new girl. The style of sweet days of discipline might be called deadpan mystificatory. Sweet days of discipline new directions publishing. Sweet days of discipline by fleur jaeggy, paperback barnes. Italian writer jaeggy s fourth book but first to be published here. New directions is a wonderful publisher to work with, one which tends to publish the kind of writers writers writers whose books benefit from unusual covers. In tim parks consummate translation with its spare, haunting quality of a prose poem, sweet days of discipline was selected as one of the london times literary supplements notable books of 1992. Jan 11, 2017 and perhaps they were the best years, i thought.
In sweet days of discipline, the narrator, years after graduating, fortuitously encounters her old friend. Sweet days of discipline fleur jaeggy, tim parks books. Happiest days of your life 28 replies fleur jaeggys novella is part of and other stories response to kamila shamsies provocation back in 2015, calling for a year in which only books written by women should be published. The times literary supplement named fleur jaeggy s s. The first, i am the brother of xx, is a collection of. In sweet days of discipline, she describes an obsessive friendship between a young. In sweet days of discipline, she describes an obsessive friendship between a young girl, frederique, and an unnamed narrator who, like jaeggy, attended a seemingly endless series of boarding schools. The original english edition translated by parks was selected as one of the times literary supplements notable books of 1992. The narrator recalls a time, in postwar switzerland, when she was a 14yearold student in a boardingschool for girls from all over the world.
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