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Sweet days of discipline paperback brazos bookstore. Now jaeggy has come up with seven stories, each at some deep level in dark complicity. After completing her studies in switzerland, jaeggy went to live in rome, where she met ingeborg bachmann and thomas bernhard. In 1968 she went to milan to work for the publisher adelphi edizioni. 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. Initially published in italian in 1989, fleur jaeggys sweet days of discipline communicates the restlessness of female adolescence in deliciously pointed prose. Set in postwar switzerland, fleur jaeggy s eerily beautif. Sweet days of discipline by fleur jaeggy overdrive. 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. Translated into about twenty languages, fleur jaeggy is a true original of european writing. 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. I would have to spend the best years of my life in boarding school, she writes. Sweet days of discipline paperback green apple books. 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.
Fleur jaeggy is a true original of european writing and has been translated into over twenty languages. Italian writer jaeggy s fourth book but first to be published here. Mar 14, 2018 translated into about twenty languages, fleur jaeggy is a true original of european writing. Sweet days of discipline by fleur jaeggy overdrive rakuten. 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. This page contains details about the fiction book sweet days of discipline by fleur jaeggy published in 1989. At fourteen i was a boarder in a school in the appenzell. The narrator recalls a time, in postwar switzerland, when she was a 14yearold student in a boardingschool for girls from all over the world.
Sweet days of discipline fleur jaeggy, tim parks books. Sweet days of discipline volume 758 of naval doctrine publication volume 758 of new directions paperbook. Fleur jaeggy is an italian speaking, swissborn writer. Find out more about i am the brother of xx, sweet days of discipline and proleterka. Proleterka as a best book of the year, and her sweet days of discipline won the premio bagutta as. Mar 02, 2018 sweet days of discipline by fleur jaeggy transl. Sweet days of discipline was fleur jaeggys first novel to be translated into english, and was. Sweet days of discipline is published by new directions. Discipline is the pivot, as it is in the two bestknown examples of the genre, both set in the 1920s.
Sweet days of discipline was selected as one of the london times literary supplements notable books of 1992. Sweet days of discipline ebook written by fleur jaeggy. Jaeggys fourth novel, sweet days of discipline translated by tim parks, made her name, in 1989. Sweet days of discipline by fleur jaeggy 1993, paperback.
The style of sweet days of discipline might be called deadpan mystificatory. Download for offline reading, highlight, bookmark or take notes while you read sweet days of discipline. Tim parks is the author of more than twenty novels and works of nonfiction, including the bestselling italian neighbors and an italian education. April bernard, newsdaystartling and originalso disturbing and so haunting. 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. 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. 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 new directions paperbook, 758 9780811212359. English language translation by tim parks published by william heinemann in 1991. Sweet days of discipline by fleur jaeggy, paperback.
In sweet days of discipline, the narrator, years after graduating, fortuitously encounters her old friend. I bought the book on impulse, to break my winter impasse of barely reading. 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. 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 by fleur jaeggy goodreads. 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. 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. Sweet days of discipline by fleur jaeggy, paperback barnes. 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. 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.
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. 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. Read book sweet days of discipline by fleur jaeggy epub. This book is the 2188th greatest fiction book of all time as determined by. Jan 11, 2017 and perhaps they were the best years, i thought. Italian writer jaeggys fourth book but first to be published here. Sweet days of discipline by fleur jaeggy, 9780811212359.
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. 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. The perils of designing a cover for a novel you truly love. In sweet days of discipline, she describes an obsessive friendship between a young. And so, last night, i began reading sweet days of discipline. The times literary supplement named fleur jaeggys s. The swiss writer fleur jaeggy will become a giant in your eyes because of the characters she creates. 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 premio speciale rapallo. The times literary supplement named fleur jaeggy s s. 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. Antonia whites frost in may and christa winsloes madchen in uniform the novel on which the more famous film was based is. Fleur jaeggy is a swiss writer, of italian mother tongue. Sweet days of discipline by fleur jaeggy the 2188th. Sweet days of discipline paperback third place books.
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. There was a kind of elation, faint but constant throughout all those days of discipline, the sweet days of discipline. Set in postwar switzerland, fleur jaeggys eerily beautiful novel begins simply and innocently enough. Sweet days of discipline paperback october 29, 2019 quantity add to cart sku. 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. Kindle store buy a kindle free kindle reading apps kindle books french ebooks. Sweet days of discipline is a novelor rather novellaabout a girls boarding school. 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. The candied menace of fleur jaeggys sweet days of discipline. Sweet days of discipline by fleur jaeggy first published in italian as i beati anni del castigo in italy by adelphi edizioni in 1989. But there is nothing truly simple or innocent here.
Her work has been acclaimed as smallscale, intense, and impeccably focused the new yorker and addictive kirkus. There are no aids to grasping the connection between discipline, madness, and death which the novel seems to be proposing. About the author fleur jaeggy a wonderful, brilliant, savage writer susan sontag was born in 1940 in zurich and lives in milan. Upon its italian publication, it won the highlyregarded prizes, the premio bagutta and the premio. Sweet days of discipline new directions publishing. 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. Born in manchester in 1954, tim parks is a novelist, memoirist and translator. One would perhaps expect some of the singsongish languor of italian creep innot so, and the result is striking. 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 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. The first, i am the brother of xx, is a collection of. Fleur jaeggys sweet days of discipline i seem to have a habit of calling books atmospheric when i damn them with faint praise. Jaeggy has the voice down just right for most of the short book, and describes the general feeling of these schooldays convincingly.
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