Fleur Jaeggy

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Last Vanities

Fleur Jaeggy; Tim Parks

Synopsis:
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 Fohn, the warm west wind of the Alps that inclines otherwise respectable citizens to vent the spleen and angst of life's last vanities.
Winner of the Bagutta and Boccaccio Europa Prizes, Fleur Jaeggy is a master stylist: her work, as The New Yorker remarked, is "small-scale, intense, and impeccably focused." Her eerie style is perfectly caught by Tim Parks: his translation again "has the spare, haunting quality of a prose poem" (The London Times Literary Supplement).

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Other editions: Softcover - 2008, Softcover - 2003, Softcover - 2002, Softcover - 2002, Softcover - 2002, 2001, 1994, Softcover - 1993, 1990